philosophically, steve. specifically both locations but in california where the mountains meet the sea and people build beautiful homes. it is not just rich people. a lot of the stuff we focus is pepperdine and the getty villa. there are mobile home parks in there as well. everyday middle class americans in there as well and this is a bit of the risk assumption. fires, mudslides, earthquakes, a little piece of price for paradise. >> ainsley: i wonder if some of these people will decide not to rebuild, sell land and i'm out of here. it's dangerous. no one wants to live through these and we keep seeing the fires oust there. >> brian: we'll check out your podcast today. >> ainsley: a press conference today at 11:00 eastern and 8:00 a.m. pacific time as the fire continues. we'll cover it all day. >> steve: see you tomorrow. >> are you good?

>> my goodness, like a bomb hit this area here. >> we have to get these guys out. >> i can't help but feel bad for all the people who live here. we've never had a fire like this. >> bill: these images are endless. good morning, everyone. a living hell on the doorstep of so many this morning. southern california facing a worst case scenario, violent winds fueling several major wildfires and the results could be catastrophic. good morning, everybody. l.a. is on fire. sun comes up later this hour. i'm bill hemmer live in new york. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." los angeles officials are scheduled to give an update at 11:00 a.m. eastern. two hours from now. 1400 firefighters are battling the city is putting out a call to off duty firefighters. saving as many lives as possible. >> bill: the biggest of the three fires is burning in

pacific palisades, iconic neighborhood that stretches down to the sea and malibu. homes were built very close together. the flames now reducing entire streets within hours to ash. >> dana: 30,000 people are under evacuation orders, more than 2 hundred thousand are without power. the winds fueling the flames reaching 1 hundred miles-per-hour and it could be days before the wind gusts down die. >> bill: we have our team out there in southern california. william la jeunesse has been on the air for hours along the coast in malibu. jonathan hunt is live in pacific palisades. let's begin with jonathan to find out what is happening now 6:01 local time in california. jonathan, hello. >> good morning to you, bill and dana. yeah, we are in the heart of what is the most intense part of this catastrophic fire right now in the pacific palisades. behind me here, this is just one of what i would predict is

ultimately turn out to be hundreds of homes, bill, that have gone up in flames. this one on the corner of sunset boulevard. it runs to, from and through the pacific palisades. this home on a quick check i just did, $16 million. that's one of the odd things about the palisades. so many multi-million dollar homes here. a lot opened by actors and movie producers but people who have lived in far less value homes for decades inheristed by their family. that's what is left of that home. if i turn around here and i want to bring you across the street as you follow us here, careful of the step, brian here, we are walking over a median here. another one here. slightly to our right is a $6 million home. that at this point not touched. their neighbors right here as we walk into this driveway, this i believe was something like an $8

million home. there is, as you can see, nothing left of it. we'll go as far as we can here. the basketball hoop just in the yard here. as you look across this, you can see what kind of property it was. this is in the heart of l.a. the pacific palisades. this is really, really expensive real estate and every inch of that completely and utterly destroyed. so far this fire has burned around 3 thousand acres, we're told. frankly, as we trove in this morning, bill and dana, it doesn't look like firefighters have much of a grip on the fire itself. as i look down the street here i can see in the distance more and more homes burning. at the moment, this remains while they're trying to save any property they can. their biggest priority now is saving lives. that's what they've been trying to do for some 18 hours or so now since this first started. we saw some, frankly, movie-like

scenes yesterday people coming down from the pacific highlands. one road in there, one road out. those people were desperately trying to get out. a lot of them simply could not move their vehicles because there was so much traffic. they got out and just ran for their lives with their children and pets. how terrifying that would have been for anybody. they abandoned the cars. the fire trucks have is move in, bulldoze all the cars out of the way as another fire truck comes across our view and get access to everybody. i heard you say in your intro this could be catastrophic. i will tell you it already is catastrophic. as i say, by the end of this we're going to see numbers in the hundreds in terms of residences destroyed, businesses destroyed. the pacific palisades high

school is up to my right. that was on fire last night. we have not got an update from officials whether it has been completely destroyed. that's 3 thousand students go to that school. thankfully, they were not back from their winter break because it is a charter school. they don't go back until next week. so many families right across miles and miles of this iconic l.a. neighborhood living in terror for the last 24 hours, bill and dana. >> bill: there are so many remarkable things in the past 12 hours alone. you referred to one of them. that's with this traffic jam where they had to bring in the bulldozer and move abandoned cars out of the way. amazing stuff. never heard of this before. when it comes to fighting the fire, if the winds are still high, you can't get helicopters in the air. it is hard to get fixed aircraft in the air. maybe that happens when the sun comes up a bit later. you are forced to fight the fire on the ground. so what is the strategy then if you've all got fire trucks there

and that's your best chance? >> you have the fire trucks coming in doing the best they can. with something like this, obviously, this home we're just showing you, it is too late. they have to sit and let it burn. if brian can pan up slightly here, brian, you can see the embers flying through the air here. the winds are not bad right now. it is breezy but they are supposed to pick up. all you need are a couple of those embers to get picked up, bill, by the winds, they land on another house and then that house is lost, too. that's why this is just going on and on and on. you talked about the fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. very difficult in the wind to get the helicopters up. yesterday we were getting some extraordinary scenes, though, of the fixed wings that were flying still despite the gusty winds out into the ocean just off of the pacific palisades. doing the water pickups in the ocean and flying back in. obviously overnight those air drops had to stop.

we hope that come first light here within the next hour they will be able to get back up in the air and make a real difference. but this is -- i can tell you from talking to firefighters over many years here, this is one of the toughest fights they've ever faced. because a lot of these fires we get, bill, they are sort of out a little bit beyond the confines of los angeles proper. so you have homes that are more spread out. here this is densely packed and that's why this is causing so much devastation, bill and dana. >> dana: it is hard to get our arms around it. thank you so much for all of your reporting and william la jeunesse, too. i have a question for the people who had to flee on foot carrying whatever they could, the children, pets, whatever they could fit into a bag, how far would they have had to walk to safety? >> well, depends on where they were. where this fire started pacific

highlands area and where you saw the extraordinary traffic jam and people jumping out of their cars, they could have had to walk up to a couple of miles down that one street that is the way out and then we saw pictures of people just arriving at the end there, finding a firefighters, collapsing into their arms with just joy, relief and obviously terrible sadness and fear at the same time. so it has been really difficult for anybody. my wife is a reporter here in l.a. last night. she was on the beach looking back at the pacific palisades and a gentleman said you see that fire burning there? that's my home and collapsed into tears. the human toll of this is just extraordinary, dana, when you think about these people losing absolutely everything. again, as i say you are talking about multi-millionaires in multi-million dollar homes but

along the stretch of the bluffs of the pacific palisades there are two mobile home parks. one of those, i know, had something like 187 trailers in there, homes to people. i believe from the pictures i was seeing last night, that every one of those 187 homes could be gone this morning. so when first -- when we get first light here and when we get the update, that is due at 11:00 a.m. eastern time, i believe we're going to hear some absolutely shocking figures about the damage that this fire has done and continues to do. these winds are going to blow through much of today here in l.a. as well, bill and dana. >> bill: you be good out there, stay safe. keep the crews and colleagues out there as well. we'll rely on you for hours to come. thank you jonathan hunt in pacific palisades. >> dana: fox weather senior meteorologists djanuary is dean.

>> wind gusts in excess of 100 miles-per-hour. an additional fire and the winds 60 to 65 miles per hour. it is not 100 mile per hour winds. it is hard to get helicopters and airplanes out there. this hasn't been updated since 9:00 about many. the damage and scope will be enormous. we have no clue right now. the origin of the fire. the outline tells you how far it spreads. so 3 thousand miles is probably double and triple from the damage that we're seeing on the ground. 100 mile-per-hour winds just clocked around the eaton area. that started 10 p.m. last night.

that's why they are calling this in some cases you can't survive that if you are in that area in those wildfires. peak wind gusts continue today into tomorrow. the worst of it will be this morning into the afternoon. but again even if you have wind gusts of 30 to 40 miles-per-hour is enough to spread or start more wildfires when you have embers burning like they are. you know, seeing this, bill and dana, we're looking at history. i have never seen anything like this in my career ever. >> bill: it feels like hawaii from a year ago. >> it does. but this is, i think much bigger than that. >> bill: thank you, stay close. with us now a eric robertson and a couple from palisades. good morning to both of you. i know you are safe. do you know the fate of your home you left behind >> we don't know yet. we're waiting to hear. it is pretty terrifying. >> bill: i bet.

tell us about your way out. how did you get there? >> well, you know, the communication was a little bit limited during the day. we saw the fire beginning. we tracked its progress at home for a bit. we received the evacuation order and tricia and her son went down first and were turned around by the smoke and flames on both sides of the canyon. and the cars blocking the road. they came back home. we heard that the order to evacuate was rescinded so we weren't quite sure what to do. then the winds kept picking up an the smoke was all around us. we decided to make a break for it. luckily the police took down groups of cars with an escort after the other cars had been bulldozed so we were able to drive through the congestion point, which looked like a war zone. there must have been at least 50 to 75 cars pushed to the side that we've seen images of.

burning debris on the ground and, you know, fire hoses and blockages everywhere. all our landmarks, schools, grocery store, our churches everything on the way down to pch was on fire around us and it was hard to see that and then drive away. >> dana: tricia, can you tell us about your experience with your son. how old is he? >> he is 18. i mean, we were scared to stay and we were scared to leave. it was amazing, our neighbors, we sort of got everybody together and said we were all going to go at once. it was a caravan. how much everyone texted and made sure everyone was safe when we got to the bottom. everyone i know, everyone i know is -- has been evacuated and i would say half of them have lost their homes. i have a business in the village and i think the entire block

went up. we watched it burning last night. there are a lot of residents who own businesses, a lot of women who own businesses in town. and i don't know how many of them will survive. >> bill: we can only imagine the trauma you are both experiencing. sending you our best. don't let the imagination get the best of you and we'll hope for the best when you are able at some point to go back. eric, did you want to say something else? i saw you jumping in there. >> no, we're pleased, just keep praying for us. >> dana: we will. >> bill: thank you. best to your son, too. >> thank you. >> dana: we're getting some incredible new video this morning. check this out here. >> don't let touch the ground. roll it up in a ball.

>> dana: that's a man climbing a poll to save the american flag as a surrounding area is engulfed in flames. this happened overnight in the pacific palisades neighborhood. >> bill: also video out there if we get a chance to turn it around. a man in his backyard and the fire surrounds 360 degrees around where he is. it captures the moment for so many when you listened to eric and tricia tell their story, it happened so fast and the winds grew so quickly and these folks had no chance. >> dana: when she said we were afraid to stay and we were afraid to leave. really brought it home. >> bill: it will be a huge story for us throughout the day. there is a lot of other news, though, we want to get to it in moments. president-elect donald trump will be in d.c. today meeting with senate republicans. looking for some sort of blueprint on passing a massive agenda so we'll update that to you in a moment here. >> dana: president biden trying to put the best possible face on his legacy as he prepares to

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>> dana: fox news alert. additional breaking news. moments ago president-elect trump's legal team filing an emergency petition to the supreme court asking the justices to stop his sentencing on friday in his new york criminal case by judge juan merchan. a trump spokesman says any sentencing would be unconstitutional and violates the role of the american people

after they elected trump. >> bill: they're watching the clock. 48 hours. maybe they have a shot at the high court. see what they say. president-elect trump meeting with senate republicans later today on the hill. going to be a big meeting set to talk about strategy about passing the ambitious agenda. republicans say they're on board. >> republicans have control of congress. the congress is in session, both houses. let's get after it. it is time to give the american people some relief and get this country moving again. >> from a popular to the electoral vote and senate and house we swept the table and people want results. >> we'll provide the statutory backup for trump's leadership. we'll secure the border. when it comes to inflation, there is a clear mandate from the voters on inflation to turn it around. >> bill: aishah hasnie is live on the hill again today. good morning. >> good morning to you, bill. you heard that they are all on the same page. they all have the same agenda. trump's agenda. they don't know how to get there, with path to take. tonight might be an attempt to

get the president-elect to make a decision for them. as you just said, senate republicans will meet with president-elect trump later on this evening. here in washington, d.c. . he was supposed to already be in town for the jimmy carter funeral. republicans in the house and senate are trying to figure out whether they should combine trump's immigration policy with his tax policy in one large bill. the package would also include debt ceiling among other legislation. some republicans fear one big bill will just collapse on itself given the house's slim majority. only a few republicans to tank it. rand paul explaining why he wouldn't vote for one big bill if it included the debt ceiling. >> there are a lot of good things we want to do. the only thing i'm adamant about i don't think a debt ceiling increase should be in the reconciliation bill. there are many conservatives like myself who haven't voted for all the spending and we won't vote for the debt, either. >> trump has left the door open

to two bills but continues to say he prefers what he calls one big beautiful bill. >> i like one big beautiful bill and always have and always will. if two is more certain it does go a little quicker because you can do the immigration stuff early. i can live either way. i like the idea of the one big bill but i can live either way. >> we'll see if they come to an agreement later tonight. you have house republicans heading to mar-a-lago later this week to talk about this as well. >> bill: a long time together. aishah, thanks, nice to see you on capitol hill. >> dana: let's bring in caroline downey and also an opinion writer. great to have you both here. a meeting like this can set the tone for what they want to do. they don't have a ton of time to get a lot done. >> as rand paul alluded the house and senate have to be on the same page with this.

trump is not interested in fiscal austerity. we've discovered that through the process to get johnson the speakership gavel again. he wants the debt ceiling to be raised. cutting spending is a non-negotiable for the freedom caucus. that will be a sticking point. i can understand why jason smith the house ways and means committee chairman wants to get it into one bill because of the taxes. he doesn't want the tax plan of trump to get lost in the shuffle. that's a very complicated this, inc. to litigate. 2017 it took almost a year to get the taxes ironed out. so i don't know if one big bill is the way to go here especially if it is a way to test the republicans and see if they'll rally around trump's agenda but i think also it could get nothing passed if it doesn't work. >> bill: it seems they're all in lock step when it comes to the border and might get democrats in the house to vote with them on that. you could probably fast track that.

because this debt ceiling deal is going to be a problem not just for rand paul but a lot of republicans in the house. >> people have high expectations for republicans coming in right now. they were told by president trump the economy and border. one of those things you can hit the ground running and do instantly, the border. send more money for a border wall and detention beds. less people are rest lead and more detain i had at the border and more vetted. they could get points on the board quickly. if they go with a big, beautiful bill taxes are complicated as caroline explained. every state has their own interest. the debt ceiling will be a huge debate. i think if republicans really want to say we're hitting the ground running here they want to win the trust of the american people early and prove they can deliver on election promises and the two bills is the the way to go starting with the border. >> dana: we have a minute left. let me tee this up for you. president biden did an interview, believe it or not, with susan page of usa today.

read the whole thing. call for number two in which biden says i hope history says that i came in and had a plan how to restore the economy and reestablish america's leadership in the world. that was my hope. how do you think it all washes out? >> the first part of the interview said i would have defeated trump if not for my age. that will be the most appealing thing biden keeps referring to for the rest of his life is that its if not for time i would have succeeded. a misnomer, like the afghanistan withdrawal. build back better that imploded on launch have nothing to do with his mental frail touchlite it wasn't merely he had elderly brain fog. his policies were radical and they failed. >> just ask the american people. president biden's estimation of his performance keeps going up and disapproval has risen over 25 points. americans are not happy with his

performance. they weren't buying the bidenomics. they weren't buying he is on his game, and he said i could do another four years. i don't think americans are on board with that. >> dana: he said did you have the vigor to do another four years and he said i don't know. if you are asking people to do that and take their money. >> bill: a lot of good nuggets on the pardon on his son. check it out. one last comment. the relationship that donald trump has going into this term with republicans in the senate is so remarkably different from january of 2017. thanks, nice to see you both. we'll get back to california. life threatening wildfires engulfing l.a. live coverage from malibu and talk to the former head of fema on how to help crews on the ground right now and how to help those fighting to save their homes in realtime. back in a moment. the sun comes up in 20 minutes

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which is very dense, and of course these winds which have been 50 miles-per-hour down here at the coast and about 90 miles-per-hour up in the mountains. we're on pacific coast highway. you can see the fire is burning right now. in fact, this has taken 12 homes just this morning since i've been here and you can see another home is actually under fire right next door. this is right along coast highway. on the other side of those homes is the pacific ocean. this scene is by no means unique. up and down pch between here and pepperdine multiple fires, residences under fire right now north of here. this started yesterday in pacific palisades around 10:30 in the morning. a small residential backyard where it started and the winds literally picked it up and blew it into a place called the

pacific highlands with one road in and out. that forced the evacuation of some 30,000 people in the palisades area. they had to ground the helicopters because the winds were so high. some areas lost water pressure. people were rushing to get out. they caused gridlock on sunset boulevard as people picked up kids from school and abandoned cars. a deputy came across and said to people if you want to live, get out now. they had to abandon their cars and brought in a bulldozer to push those aside making way for trucks and other emergency vehicles. look at that. >> at the bottom of the canyon there was cars piled on top of each other. there were boulders and debris that fell off the canyon that was on fire that was in the middle of the road where people had to abandon their cars. >> multiple fires across southern california. this one is up in the northeast

area of los angeles. the eaton fire forced the evacuation of a nursing home and a fire burning in silmar up in the san gabriel and santa susannah mountains. evacuations are there. another fire in another base encloseing burbank boulevard because of that fire. the bottom line is firefighters are really stretched thin and we're not out of the woods. in fact, we'll be covering this probably until friday. >> dana: be safe, thank you. >> bill: the images are endless. this is pacific palisades. you roll this video and you think wow. that was paradise 24 hours ago. now they are left with this. we're in studio j of our building in mid town manhattan. i want to visit the weather folks. pardon my back for a moment here. we'll move to studio w, jimmy come here for a moment and show

you what the weather folks are seeing with regard to the wind. maybe the forecast as well. steve morgan is up first. good morning. don't mean to interrupt. you guys are live on the air. what are you seeing now? >> the crazy thing. this was forecast to be a windstorm. these types of winds kick up in december and january. the unknown is if there will be fires that start. unfortunately we've seen in los angeles county north of l.a. three separate fires which have already started. the hirsch fire started last night at 10:30. >> bill: these came out of nowhere and the winds were with them. and the winds weren't just 30 miles-per-hour. they were hitting gusts of 100 miles-per-hour. what the governor was saying last night by 5:00 a.m. they would have seen the maximum winds come through that area. that's apparently not the case. why did it change? >> as far as the gradient winds we deal with. you have to look at what we're tracking the possibility of snow in texas, a strong area of low

pressure just east of the mountains that has formed. that is combined with the strong area of high pressure to the north. that brings the santa ana winds and that pressure gradient is so remarkably and unusually strong given the environment we have here, you couple that with the dry vegetation and you have the threat for fire. i'm telling you, we've seen last hour we saw 90 mile-per-hour wind gusts in los angeles county through the hills. the santa monica mountains and san gabriels. >> bill: what are you seeing out there? another fire started up now. >> an update from california fire at 11:00 eastern time. we'll hear about the growth of the fires, the new fire in l.a. county and find out more on that. another fire in riverside county that's new. the winds are aggressive through the night. even sustained winds 20 to 35 to 40 miles-per-hour.

the video is capty vanth, heartbreaking and terrifying. speaking to a friend who lives there. her girlfriend had to walk two miles to get to her child. she was one of them with the abandoned cars people trying to get to their children. >> bill: you guys get back to work. thank you so much. steven, thanks to you. our coverage continues over on the channel. >> great coverage. >> dana: let's bring in the administrator and your expertise is -- you are somebody who has been through natural disasters. the scope and scale of this one as we're right in the middle of it seems apocalyptic. >> wildfires are the worst. they pop up with no notice type event that moves quickly through and takes everything in its wake and the recovery and response and recovery mission is going to

be incredibly complex. the long-term community recovery will take years for this to occur. >> dana: for people who have walked to safety, have their children and know their home is gone, perhaps their businesses are gone, what's the next step for them? >> i have been in contact with the l.a. county emergency director. they have a strong agency. they're concerned right now there is a dynamic event that requires constant monitoring. if the winds don't die down until friday you may see other fires spring up and push to heavily populated areas. you can't replace people's lives or infrastructure over time. the message is that people have to stay vigilant and constantly monitor the watches an warnings and get out of these areas pro-actively when called to do so.

once the safety mission runs down and life sustainment. how do we get people who lost everything that they've worked for and owned, how do we get them into a situation to stabilize their life temporarily and work on long term housing solutions after that? a tremendous amount of funding that comes from the federal government from a host of agencies, not just fema. if you look back to the 2017 and 18 time frames and when i was in office there were over 220 different events in two years. one every three days. congress will fund the disaster relief fund. sometimes this money is so complex it will go to 20 different government agencies to fund 90 different recovery programs and can become overwhelming for these communities that are trying to navigate a long-term community recovery and establish a new normal. >> dana: this is such a highly-populated area. as you mentioned with a

hurricane you can have fema and the state government and local governments pre-stage equipment and help that they know they'll need. in this case they don't. in fact, this morning, brock, they're asking for off duty firefighters to come in to try to get the help. >> sure. again response like this is a team sport. it starts at the local level, state level and escalates to fema. fema is largely not really a 911 type agency that can move quick throe this type of event so there has to be strong state and local capabilities in place across the country to increase response capabilities for future events, right? fema will backfill capacity gaps and help coordinate that over time. because of the low to no notice and quick moving nature of these events it is hard for the system to ramp up and move quickly. what fema will largely do is

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>> bill: what you're watching is the the video from pacific palisades. it is still dark. screen right, there are the images we've been watching since we woke up this morning. images from malibu as well, and we said it could be catastrophic and it is clear to all of us

that's the case. how much worse it gets is a wide open question. so something we're wait for. there will be a briefing next hour. that's our best information of source and knowledge. >> dana: you can see the sky is starting to lighten. the pink in the back. i think that's the sun starting to rise. we'll have more information and a clearer picture for whatever we'll find. looks like it will be pretty bad. we'll take you there right after this. president-elect trump is putting the world on notice. he is threatening to take control of greenland and panama canal. >> the panama canal is vital to our country. it is being operated by china. china. we gave the panama canal to pan that, not china. they've abused it. we need greenland for national security purposes. the people will vote for

independence or come into the united states. if they did do that, then i would tariff denmark at a high level. >> can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion >> no. >> are you considering military force to annex and acquire. >> no, economic force. canada and the united states, that would really be something. >> dana: let's bring in joey jones. last night on special report i watched john fetterman and katie britt asked about this by bret baier and listen to what he said. >> there is a lot of talk about greenland for example. i know there is a lot of freak-outs. i would never support taking it by force. but i do think -- i do think it's a responsible conversation if they were open to acquiring it whether just buying it outright. if anyone thinks that's bonkers it is like remember the louisiana purchase? >> dana: joey, he also talked

about alaska. what do you think about greenland? >> i think there is a lot of things here. don't ever underestimate a man willing to go into manhattan and build a skyscraper. the majority of politicians in d.c. would be overwhelmed and scared to death if they put their entire life online for something like that and president trump did that decades ago. so he will come into the office. we had a president that made hope and change a campaign slogan. now we may have a president that makes it a policy. i think he understands how important it is for americans to feel like we are a super power. that we are prosperous, that we are defended. this is a part of that narrative. if you read the book on killing. i don't suppose most people have a lieutenant -- posture and

submission and look at different species, and they have this version of fighting where they don't actually fight. one pas tours and they submit. president trump understands that. it is not a direct analogy but like teddy roosevelt sending the white fleet around the world. we probably couldn't defeat all of europe in military power but we had the strongest navy and made sure the entire world including japan knew about it. so if president trump is coming into office there is war all over the world in europe and the middle east. we have essentially a war at the southern border when it comes to what's coming across the border. he needs to posture. he needs to let the world know that america isn't on the decline but on the rise. that we don't have an administration coming in that would make apologies or concessions around the world to keep a fake peace. this is a part of that overall i guess posture or policy that he

is putting out there. on greenland specifically, greenland has made moves towards independence from denmark in the 21st century. this is a movement there. 70% of the people want to be independent. maybe he is taking advantage of that less than china taking over. >> dana: i love seeing you. hopefully next time in person. thank you, happy new year to you. >> bill: thank you, awaiting a major news conference in southern california. this will be a precious amount of information that we are really an stand by for. screen left live images from malibu. it breaks your heart. officials set to give an update. the situation evolving by the minute. more coming up as it happens. >> when i was driving to the command post it looked like an apocalypse. you couldn't see. there was spot fires everywhere. definitely the worst brush fire and worst incident that pasadena has seen in its history.

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