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plus $1,500 off! ♪ >> brian: straight to a fox news alert. right now los angeles is burning. this is a live picture i'm going to share with you. three fires are out of control. wildfires are spreading in different parts of los angeles county. fueled by a life-threatening and destructive wind storm. the flames tearing through over 4,000 acres already. >> lawrence: despite the heroic efforts of firefighters they're all zero percent contained. fire officials warning winds will continue through tomorrow with gusts in some areas topping 99 miles per hour. >> ainsley: county officials calling this a worst case scenario with crews spread so thinly, particularly inland areas, like pasadena, where new fires are flaring up after they had sent responders and assets to battle the big pacific

palisades fire. >> tens of thousands of californians are under evacuation orders as the zones are expanding by the hour. >> fire is moving so fast and exploding because of the wind, it's intent, and you don't know what is going to happen. >> how many more horses could you have? >> we have a couple we just let loose over there trying to get as many as we can out. >> are any homes out there on fire? >> i did not pay attention. i just drove straight to the barn to get my horses out. >> as we sit here tonight, we have no idea about our own home. >> steve: heart breaking. and take a look at people living inside the pasadena senior center are frantically moved out of their building and forced into the parking lot as fire quickly approached. >> ainsley: right now one fire jumping the pacific coast highway burning rows of ocean front homes in malibu. >> brian: we start our live team coverage right now with senior meteorologist janice dean tracking the wind storm that's fanning the flames.

first, william la jeunesse is live in malibu where residents are not already -- were not already under evacuation orders are being told to prepare to leave at a moment's notice. william? >> brian, several hours ago. the situation you seen here is by no means unique. several major storms burning in l.a. county. zero percent contained and they are burning up and down coast highway. which is where i am right now about. nine homes in this area have burned along pch. the ocean is only about 60, 70 feet away from me on the other side of those flames. the firefighters you can see right now are trying to stop this fire from moving to the next set of homes. and they almost share a wall that's how tightly packed they are together. but we have winds picking up down here near the coast. and 99 miles per hour in the mountain passes and again, this destroyed countless number of homes, we will get update around 8:00 a.m. local time.

roadways, towns brought to a total stand still. in certain areas they have lost water pressure. they had to ground the helicopters last night around 8:00 p.m. because of the high winds. this broke out around 10:30 in the morning in the residential area called the palisades a small town north of soont. santa monica. it took many homes, a mobile home park. landmark, restaurants. senior living center. palisades high school. they had to evacuate a number of different areas. that created a gridlock on sun set boulevard. people were leaving their cars, we're told by police were to get out of their cars if they want to live and run. later they had to bring in a bull doze tore push those cars aside so the fire trucks could get in and out and have access to an area called the palisades highlands kind of a community at the top of the mountain that fire then jumped topanga canyon

and loss flurries canyon structs like this along coast highway burning. also, keith, if you want to push up real quick. kind of unusual, guys. i will take you inhere. there is a house burning. you see that glow on the top? there is a house burning right up there as well. the point being is the fire is burning on both sides of the coast highway as well as malibu. also i want to take you to some other areas around l.a. county. pasadena, at deanna, sylmar, you have fires burning there as well because ever the high winds, the embers are pushing ahead, sometimes about a mile ahead of the fire. in fact, i think we have some sound from a witness earlier today or last night. >> creek gone, gone.

there is nothing left. nothing left. >> they have been 1400 firefighters here now. we have a mutual aid pack all the counties in southern california. brian, steve, ainsley, they are reluctant to let all their crews go because the situation is so threatening in so many different areas. they can't afford to lose too many crews to the hot spots that we have here. about 200,000 people without power. that could expand as these winds are expected to continue throughout wednesday, back to you. >> brian: show you how unique everything is they say in pacific palisades, i mean, jennifer aniston, adam cooper. michael keaton. like the who's who of holiday who choose to live there usually means it's one of the safer places. >> yeah, tom hanks, is he up on -- i saw a crew out there

early this morning as well. yeah, these homes in the palisades area that we are talking about. they start at maybe $3 million. they will push up over 30. if they have any land at all. and an area that called the palisades rivera. i sought fire burning there last night. again, not unlike here in malibu. i saw five houses burning and not a firefighter in sight they are stretched that thin. and there is not even structure protection in those areas. and some areas, of course, as you know, the homes are built on a bluff. and those fires run up the mountains, if you will, and take the mountain. and, of course, people have red readno insurance. insurance. there is a lot of heat coming off. this can you see the embers blowing. >> steve: yeah, toward you. >> steve: do you need to move? >> we are safe here. no, we're good. but, you know, you look at that power pole and as they came up

down pch it was lit erred with power poles down, lines down and then, of course, rocks coming off the on the other side of the road. so, the situation is extremely threatening and dangerous. in a lot of west l.a. put it that way. >> steve: just a moment ago, william, we were showing live pictures from syria madre. and it's one of few pictures we have seen this morning where there is an actual crew this somewhat i was talking about got water trying to hose it down. we mentioned this a while ago rick crouso who ran for mayor out there he says to the "l.a. times" and apparently there is no water pressure they turn on the hydrants no water. served by great big tanks up in

the hills letting these houses burn because they don't have anything. there is no insurance being written right now out in california. you know, these people are going to be left with nothing. i had a friend who just texted me that said they got a friend, my "friends" friend's family lost four houses overnight out there. >> steve, you are right. pumper trucks go dry. 300-gallon capacity and bring in the water tenders as well. when you have a fire widespread as this one was and water supply in the palisades is limited. you have large tanks up in the hills basically that feed it. and they ran out of water pressure. and that was a situation until palisades facing several different areas that firefighters reported. that happened in malibu during the woolsey fire they ran out of fire. private fire crews they had their own pumper trucks and able to knock down some of the

flames. that's how bad the situation is. they are stretched really thin on resources. even though 1400 firefighters and probably by noon or about 8:00 today they will probably have 2500. you can't use the helicopters if the winds are too high and if they can't drop the retardant and water on the fire if you will because the winds are too high as well. it's a dire situation here. probably the worst i have ever seen. and clearly i believe this will be easily the most expensive fire in state history. >> ainsley: have to wait until the wind i die down. what is it like to keep breathing in the air i know you keep putting on the googles. >> it's bad. you put this on and it helps a while. and you do the best you can. the winds, you know, it's really weird, you guys, of course, the fire will create winds so, for a moment it's okay. it's dead and then suddenly, boom, you will get a strong breeze or a gust going through here. the amazing thing is and people

can't see it yet is the water is like right there. this is along coast highway and it was just filled with houses, one after the other. and they are, like i said almost connected. see the wind is quicking up there. with those embers blowing a mile ahead the fire, they couldn't get ahead of it. they are just spread so thin and you have the situation as i said up and down coast highway. we will try to go north later today. but, it's a bad situation. >> lawrence: you know, william, i don't know if you know. this what type of mileage are we talking about? how many people are being impacted by this? >> well, i think malibu's population is around 20,000, maybe. and stretching from pepperdine down to soont and brian knows this around rustic canyon. you are probably looking at about 20 miles. i think my commute was 26 miles. about 20 miles.

>> year which is burning in many situations. doesn't count malibu because this happened literally after 6:00 p.m. last night is only when it crossed topanga into the southern end of malibu if you will. about seven miles of flames, intermittent flames like you are seeing here on these homes which, again, along coast highway they are one after the other after the other and there is very few breaks a few restaurants in between. we said dukes, we said moon shadows. nobu is up there closer to the center of malibu. if fire gets in those areas unlike the pali village which has had significant destruction. there is no telling how many buildings are going to be destroyed. >> you know when you mentioned

topanga canyon what i find interesting and challenging is it is very hard to get out of the mountains. that's what they were having in pacific palisades. topanga canyon one of the few ways to weave out of the other direction. is it passable right now and are you at risk because it's through the woods? >> yeah, brian. good point. usually you use roads like that as a fire break. and that fire jumped topanga in a heart beat going from coast line drive over to the real inn another restaurant that was destroyed. as you said, brian, there is a lot of homes tucked in topanga canyon. as i said this now goes up and i hate to be so provincial about this all the way up to holland. homes on topanga canyon, tuna canyon, coral canyon, malibu canyon, so the northern edge of los angeles, basically is a mountain range.

the sauna susannas, san gabriels, santa monicas. they're coming down and pushing through the canyons at very high speed and that's where a lot of people like to build their homes, right? and so all of those areas are -- have major risks. and it jumped topanga in a heart beat. >> brian: i remember the house i was renting a room in burned. i went up to the firefighter and i said -- he goes show me where you live. i showed him he said that's not even on our map. we can't even get our trucks up there. so he goes a lot of times peerges you know, build out without getting, you know, getting zoned in so to speak. and a lot of other people are under the impression that everybody is rich in malibu and they are not. some of them are small farms some are small tiny houses. you will see people that seem to be living paycheck to paycheck as you cut through malibu,

correct? >> yeah, brian. topanga one of those more affordable areas because of the wildfire risk. and you are right. people have been there for 20, 30 years. they are not moving. you know, they got -- if they have a mortgage it's under 5%. and they have been there a long time. a big problem, obviously. is bringing in help. for malibu. that's one of the areas. mobile home park. the malibu mobile home park right there near the getty, the old getty. that burned. they had to evacuate another senior center burned across san polly high school. sun set and glad stones they burned. so the housing situation in california as bad as it is now, the last thing we need to do is lose more houses. because it is already an affordability crisis.

>> brian: so expensive. >> ainsley: families waking up tell them the stories about people leaving pacific palisades they had to leave their cars. they were told if you want to save your life you need to leave your car and run a. actor guttenberg helping to move cars out to get up in the neighborhood to fight fires. many people didn't leave their keys. it was hard to move the cars. they were bringing in bulldozers? >> 89 palisades hildz is right off sun set boulevard. and it's pretty steep. and there is a subdivision back interesting quite -- probably a thousand homes if you will. one road in. one road out. that's it. there is only one road. let me put it that way. and this fire, it started just next to the highlands, my wife was actually getting her nails done yesterday when this thing broke out around 10:30 and she didn't know what was going on. >> parents were trying to pick up their kids at the elementary school. and trying to get them out and they were frantic.

and they were leaving their cars parked on sun set boulevard and running to get their kids. they were going in and out. and so people were trying to come out to of the highlands. told to evacuate flames coming up the hill. and there was gridlock. because they couldn't get down on to sun set and the firefighters were trying to fight a fire right at the base where there is kind of a commercial area and some shops if you will. and so the deputies came to the people who are gridlocked on palisades drive. if you wanting to live, get out of your car now and run. >> steve: and they did. >> they ran down on to sun set. and they tried getting rides and get any kind -- get any way out. but, the point you are has been, ainsley. all these cars were parked all over the road and they couldn't get the fire trucks. they need about 12 feet wide. they brought in two bulldozers and simply pushed those cars out of the way so they could get

access into the highlands. and started telling people shelter in place because you can't get out. so they did. >> ainsley: that video was all over social media. thank you so much, william. heart breaking to see the man bringing his horse from his farm and say i had to say i had to let some of them off on their own. janice dean tracking the dangerous winds fueling these fires. janice? >> we had winds in excess of 90 miles per hour. almost 100 miles per hour overnight. and right now where william was right around here, around malibu hills. we have got wind gusts in excels of 57 miles per hour. 58 miles per hour. wind gusts in santa monica 21. and even though we are not close to 100 miles per hour, that's still going to spread flames. i don't even know if you can still get planes up there at close to 60 mile-per-hour wind. here are the top winds, again close 100 miles per hour. that is hurricane force winds impossible for firefighters to fight fire in winds that are

that high. wind alerts remain in effect. we will see wind gusts the highest topping around 60 to 80 miles per hour. again, that's still enough to spread fires very quickly to start fires very quickly. and that's going to be situation not only today but through the rest of the week so really not getting a break here. particularly dangerous situation for the fire weather alerts for southern california. and there is where we stand right now. >> they have not updated the acreage in a couple of hours. i expect they will do so soon. but we don't have any control over that, you know, right now since 5:00 a.m. since i have been on the air close to # thousand acres burned in the palisades fire and we got two other fires as well that are burning out of control. not contained and here are some of the wind gusts as well. 73 miles per hour. i mean so these winds are still fast and furious. and still potentially could spread flames everywhere. back to you. >> brian: all right. thanks so much, janice. let's bring in pasadena fire

chief chad august gustin. thanks for joining us. water pressure in pacific palisades. where is help coming from thasmtion for having me just a week ago we were celebrating the many rose bowl and rose bowl parade. 50, 60, 70 mile-per-hour wind gusts. wind driven fire. we have lost a significant amount of homes and i would estimate we're going to meet tomorrow morning daytime but we are going to be in the 1500, to 2,000 acres burned with zero percent containment. >> steve: chief, have you ever in your life seen anything like this? i mean winds coming out 99 miles per hour and pretty much everything in its path is going

to burn because you can't stop it and you are running out of water and you don't have a lot of manpower. all hands on deck. but you need more. >> we do. and we made the request for 50 strike teams from all over the state, which would give us another 250 fire engines. when i was driving to the command post, it really looked like apocalypse. you couldn't see. there was spot fires everywhere. there was trees coming down. literally as we were driving. and multiple, multiple houses on fire. definitely the worse brush fire and incident that pasadena has seen in its history. >> lawrence: chief, can you explain the water pressure issue that you guys -- we continue to hear about. >> thankfully, pasadena tonight we have not had significant water pressure issues. crews have been able to get water out of hydrants. the problem is this is a wind driven fire. and it's -- we're having spotting of multiple miles ahead of the fire.

and it is -- we could have another 500 firefighters here on this incident. and we still wouldn't be able to stop this fire. we really need the winds to die down. we need to get aircraft in the air. and be able to start doing water drops. and then come behind it with fire crews. >> ainsley: chief, you can't even start containment until that happens? >> no. our crews are doing -- there was some really heroic activities between police and fire tonight with, you know, multiple residents being saved. people being pulled out of wood burning billings and things that you hear but it was happening in real time. but, the fire is spreading so rapidly. by the time our crews pulled hose lines and trying to extinguish the fire it is three houses down instead of the house that they were trying to fight. >> chief, i know that you guys were telling people they should evacuate because we knew yesterday the winds were going to be really high.

at that point it was going to be 70 or 80 miles per hour now almost 100. i know when people have to evacuate out in that area. everybody has a go bag. and you got supplies. you got your prescriptions and stuff like that. but what is really important, you need a map and two evacuation routes. >> this is the reason why. people think i'm going to go inland. this time you can't go that way or you can't go north. you can't go south. you don't know where to go. >> right. and to your point, pasadena has a lot of one way, in one way out just like malibu. we are getting another big wind gust here so we really preach having that go-bag. being sufficient for 72 hours. have a primary and secondary evacuation route. a meeting place for your family. because we have been preparing for this event for the past few days as a wind event. not necessarily as a fire event here we are with devastating

fires on top of the wind event. we have had multiple evacuations. in the process of expanding mandatory evacuation zones because we are having a wind shift. and with those ember casting up to 2 to 3 miles. it really expands the area of pasadena where we need to evacuate residents. >> brian: stay safe. thank you so much. we will talk again. hopefully get 50 strike teams quickly. >> thank you so much for having me. >> brian: absolutely. more "fox & friends" in a moment. voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement. mr. clean magic eraser... wow - where has this been my entire life? having to clean with multiple products is a hassle. with magic eraser... i use it on everyday messes. i even use it on things that i think are impossible to clean. you need mr. clean magic eraser in your life.

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>> back to that fox news alert. president biden responding to the devastating wildfires tearing through southern california right now. >> lucas tomlinson joins us live from outside the white house with more. good morning, lucas. >> good morning, brian. good morning, friends. president biden is in l.a. we had not seen him at all. he did not appear on camera yesterday. in fact his trip to coachella to national guard two new national park for native american tribes. those plans were scrapped due to the high winds he was not able to take a helicopter marine one out there. we did hear from the president in a statement which i will read to you now. it says, quote: my team and i are in touch with state and local officials. and i have offered any federal assistance that is needed to

help suppress the terrible pacific palisades fire. i urge the residents of the pacific palisades and the surrounding areas of los angeles to stay vigilant and listen to local officials. here is the vice president, california native, of course and former senator. doug and i are praying for our fellow californians who have evacuated and we are thinking of the families whose homes, businesses and schools remain in harm's way. we also heard jed california governor gavin newsom who received some criticism about california's response to these fires. >> no politics. no hand wringing. and kissing of the feet. the president of the united states said yes, what else do you need. emergency proclamations being drafted as we speak. i just want to thank the president because that's something that i don't take for granted. >> president biden will be returning here to the white house later today. we do expect him to speak to reporters before boarding air force one, guys. >> brian: he already had something postponed already,

right? he was supposed to do some dedicating of more land. >> that's right. brian. he was supposed to dedicate more land and two new national monuments for native american tribes. those plans were scrapped due to the high winds. he was not able to go tout to the area which is coachella. >> steve: what a contrast. a beautiful snow escape behind you and on the west coast of l.a. a hellscape of fire. it's just crazy. terrible. >> lawrence: thanks, lucas. >> steve: meanwhile, let's move on. with less than two weeks to inauguration day. president-elect donald trump unveiling his ideas to establish america's influence here in the western hemisphere. >> lawrence: so he is suggesting big plans from greenland to the panama canal to canada plus he wants to rename the gulf of mexico. >> brian: besides that a typical press conference. nate foy joins us live from palm beach. >> nate: a lot going on. president trump sent several

international messages during that news conference in mar-a-lago. releasing hostages. >> and if they are not back by the time i get into office, outline hell will break out in the middle east. >> can you elaborate? >> it will not be good for hamas and it will not be good frankly for anyone. all hell will break out. i don't have to say anymore but that's what it is. >> nate: so trump also threatened economic but not military force to facilitate a potential merger between the united states and canada. trump posted a map on truth social showing the two countries combined and captioned it, quote: o canada. now outgoing canadian prime minister justin trudeau responded to trump on x posting, quote: there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that canada would become part of the united states. trump also said the u.s. needs the man that canal and greenland for national security reasons. donald trump jr. and several trump representatives landed in greenland for a personal visit yesterday. while closer to home, trump sent

a message to mexico saying if they don't stop the millions of people crossing our border immediately he is going to rename the gulf of mexico. >> we are going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america, which has a beautiful ring. that covers a lot of territory. the gulf of america. what a beautiful name. >> so the president-elect largely with an international focus at that news conference yesterday, today focusing more on domestic priorities in washington, d.c. he will meet with senate republicans it discuss how best to advance his agenda through congress when he takes the white house in under two weeks. we'll send it back to you guys. >> steve: beautiful day down there. during that report, we showed the cover of the "new york post" right now. and it's the don row doctrine. thank you very much, nate. >> nate: you got it. >> steve: don row doctrine. what they have done is see canada and crossed that out and

says trump wants that to be the 51st state. down south the gulf of mexico now the gulf of america. panama maga canal is the panama canal and in the upper right greenland is our land. and yesterday the it is not for sale. >> brian: two bases there. we need a bigger presence there and see what they can work out. they did some estimates flat out purchase, would take place be over a trillion dollars. but currently i guess in 2008. greenland said we would like our own government. okay, you got it. when it comes to foreign policy. denmark says we will take it. strategically we need it. what i think the president is doing is priming the pump for the ultimate conversation. panama canal i have a problem with chirntion venezuela and brazil. mexico send a message. by the way that should happen. just name it. it's ours any way.

name it gulf of america that's fine. i got a problem with the northern border and problem with the southern border. i want to reconfigure some trade. keep in mind, his focus is on china. he is that's the problem in the artic we are wrestling with russia and china about our presence there. we have about 7% of the rare earth needed for all our batteries and all the things we want to use for our chips in our country. china has got 70%. how do we equal that out? it's going to be greenland? how do we get a better deal out of greenland? we are bargaining now. >> lawrence: i appreciate a president that's thinking. we haven't had that in four years. it's out of the box. is he thinking about national security. i think the big thing not -- i know we are all talking about the greenland but the threat to hamas in the middle east, saying that you got to release the hostages day one, they need to be back here at home, or i'm going to release all hell. i think that was a big message he doubled down on it yesterday. but this goes all back to not

just foreign policy but national defense. and i think the president he campaigned on it. and he is doing it before he is even in office. >> ainsley: greenland strategically makes sense halfway point between our country and the u.k. so it would make sense to have that for war purposes if we ever got to that point. also, we have a big space facility there as well. as far as panama canal, we built it, was it 1941 we built it. >> steve: way back. >> ainsley: in the 70 renamed he wants to take that back. it makes perfect sense. gulf of mexico if it came gulf of america. to say me the biggest accomplishment in the beginning would be getting these hostages back. and i was talking to someone who is jewish yesterday she and she said she voted forever trump. she doesn't understand how the jewish community couldn't vote for him especially when he says he will get hostages back. she said i will be appalled at our community if they do not support him if he gets the hostages back home.

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♪ >> steve: all right. we return to the west coast with a fox news alert. evacuation zones across l.a. county are expanding as three wind-driven wildfires spread

absolutely unprecedented lightning speed. >> lawrence: so the first responders are stretched thin. they just can't keep up as they battle the flames. and work to save lives. >> ainsley: william la jeunesse is live in malibu, california as multi million dollars ocean front homes have burned to the ground. william? >> well, ainsley, you know, since we have been together this morning for going on two hours right now. you have seen two homes burn and now you are seeing a third. firefighters have done their best to try to keep this thing cool. can you see the flames coming out of the living room there. also on the roof as well. coming out of the bedroom on that house. and as i said before, these homes along the coast are literally packed like sardines, one after the other, maybe separated by a foot or two. and that huge radiant heat is just pushing these flames and they are taking them one after the other. as keith wants to maybe pan a little bit to the left. >> people can see how many homes here have literally been destroyed. one after the other. i'm counting about 12 at this

time. just gone up in flames. that's indicative of the high winds that we're seeing down here. even at the coast, clocking in around 48 miles per hour. down near the wall. you can't see it right now. literally the ocean is literally on the other side of those flames. this started in the palisades at 10:30 yesterday. a small one acre fire. in someone's backyard in a residential area. and these winds, santa ana winds very late in the season. pushed this flame north into malibu. and south into santa monica. in fact, so many people were forced to evacuate there was gridlock. sound from a woman forced out of her car and told by police that if she wanted to live, she should run. >> people are getting out of their cars to run away from the fire. i don't know if our house is still there. what i can tell you is i have a photo of our neighbor's house which is gone. i have a photo of the neighbor's house across the street which is gone.

>> so there are several fires burning here in southern california driven by these santa ana winds, about 200,000 people without power. and ainsley, i will tell you this is probably going to be the most expensive fire in state history. back to you. >> brian: hey, william. i have only seen one fire truck come by on camera. we have had you on a lot over the last two hours. have many more come by? >> yeah. very few. normally you guys, you would see maybe four or five trucks on a fire like this. they are stretched so thin throughout southern california from pasadena, altadena, out here to malibu. as i came in this morning i probably saw about 2 or 3 dozen fire trucks up north zardz zumas zuma beach and town center. palisades on fire still and pushing down to santa monica. they are stretched super, super thin. they grounded the helicopters last night at 8:00 because of those high winds.

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>> brian: 49,000 california residents forced to evacuate, raging filers destroy homes and businesses through southern california. state already faces an insurance crisis after thousands of residents saw their policies cancel just a few months ago. >> steve: joining us now is the co-host of "the big money show" fox business brian brenberg those are images out of santa monica at this hour. a lot of people here on the east coast know that florida is a hard place to get hurricane insurance for these days. a lot of insurance companies pulled out. pretty much the same thing out in california. big companies, all state, state farm have said we are not going to write these policies, because they say the damage has been so high over the past several years. >> we can't pay for it. actually kind of sad, i mean there is a lot of sad things here. one of the sad things about the insurance market is the regulators there have just

instituted some new changes, actually to bring insurers back into the market: you can charge higher premiums but have you got to write a higher percentage of your policies in these really wildfire prone areas. so there is something on the books to change that. it just is not happening in the very near term. so, there are a lot of folks in california who are getting their wildfires insurance state program. called fair. that's doubled under the past four years. there is a lot of strain on that system. but a lot of folks who are seeing damage here are going to be going to that state system to try to get payment. >> is it good coverage or just like is it like flood insurance? it's just a bare minute stomach. >> a lot of dispute around that i don't think there is a lot of confidence in that coverage, i'm not an expert in that particular program but there has been a lot of lawsuits coverage by that program. and it's not a great option. any time you are going to the

state option it means people in the market don't want to write that insurance for you. so, look, if you are in this spot, there is a couple things. i started my career, actually in insurance and so there is a couple things you always want to do when you are in a spot like this. number one, get a copy of your policy from the insurance company, they have to give you that policy within 30 days. number two, you have got to track every expense that you have. as soon as you moved out of your home and you are doing something else, you have got to diligently track all of those expenses. and number three, you got to document every conversation you have with an adjustor. you are going to start having those. as soon as they get this under control, people are going to have those conversations. >> brian: next could you say you have an iphone. >> you got to do it. tell you things about what is covered and not covered. and you got to know what they told you. and you want to ask them to show you in their policy -- in your policy where that is. don't assume things. the risk people have is they assume things and they make decisions quickly. in these situations and they make bad decisions.

so i know it's tough in a crisis. slow down, ask questions, document everything. >> ainsley: what about for the average american who is not affected by this today? but could be down the road? we need to check our policies, call our insurance, take videos. brian always says take videos of every room of your house. >> that's a really good point. actually there is some new products. even in california there is -- it's an inventory management product in california. find articles on it really quickly. ai can now -- can you take a video of your room and ai can take that and sort it into a spreadsheet and value everything for you. so do that you can't do that in this situation if you are somewhere else and in a risk area. do that but, yes, always check to make sure the limits on your policies are consistent with the cost to rebuild what you might lose. that's the problem people have especially in an inflationary environment. the cost to rebuild has gone up. if you are not up to speed on those costs, then your policy may be inadequate.

>> lawrence: real quickly, there was exchange yesterday with president trump about biden's energy -- let's watch it? >> he wants all gas heaters out of your homes and apartments. he wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters. i don't know what it is with electric. this guy loves electric. we are going to be ending the electric car mandate by the way. this guy loves electric, we don't have enough electricity. then wen this we have ai where we need more and he wants everybody to an electric heater instead of a gas heater. gas heater is much less expensive, the heat is much better,. >> you watch what is happening today in california and you think this is where the federal government is putting his priority on whether you should have a gas or electric? it's insane regulations biden has put in at the end of his term. he is not thinking about the effect on average people. is he thinking about the climate people he wants to please. overturn this executive order.

go to court. fight it all the way to the supreme court if you have to. we got to stop doing nonsense policy when there are real issues in america we have got to solve. >> brian: unfortunately idiot governors. great show 1:00 weekdays you are the one in the middle. >> i'm the one in the middle. >> steve: big money, brian. >> ainsley: more "fox & friends" coming up. ♪ in this crazy world how do you protect and grow your investment portfolio and your retirement money? the smart investor has their money in a guaranteed product that goes up with the market. their gains lock in, and when the market goes down,

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