>> there is nothing there. nothing left. >> the fire is moving so fast and exploding because of the wind. it is intense and you know don't what is going to happen. >> it is so sad. i have never been this close to it. >> have you ever seen anything like this before? >> no. >> dana: explosive wildfires raging out of control around los angeles. hurricanes force wind putting walls of flame through neighborhoods burning out of control with 0% containment. forcing thousands of people to flee homes, some on foot. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: so few have been so close to it. it happened so fast. firefighters battling three catastrophic wildfires with another one just breaking out

moments ago. it's burning nearly 6 thousand acres including homes and businesses. you have an inferno spreading into malibu and pasadena roaring up hillsides and across steep canyons jumping highways in california. a lot of times that's your last buffer of security. not in this case for many. threatening more neighborhoods as we speak. >> dana: officials are warning the worst is yet to come. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live in pacific palisades where the sun is rising giving you a different view, i imagine. what are you seeing as the sun comes up? >> a different view but devastating one if not more so, dana. we were showing you an hour ago some of the multi-million dollar homes that dot the area in pacific palisades going up in flames. we moved a few hundred yards and these are ordinary homes here but same result. this fire does not have any respect for economic income or anything like that. as you look at the one right in front of you this has been burning since we've been here

the last 30 minutes. over to its left, that is the side wall of it which collapsed just a few moments ago. as you can see the house next door, which was previously untouched, has now caught fire and that probably is going to suffer as a result the same end result as these ones that we're looking at right here. then as we pan across here again another one as you can see just absolute devastation, you can look right through the front door of this home and see every single thing inside completely ablaze. we'll turn a little more to our cameraman's right here and look at the street. there is almost not a single home still standing on this street now. it is really one of the most extraordinary fire scenes i have ever witnessed, dana, in years of covering these kind of things. this kind of widespread

devastation. this is the difference. so often i drive 30, 40, 50 miles outside of l.a. proper to get to where these fires are taking place. this one broke out in the heart of a densely packed neighborhood, the pacific palisades and frankly the firefighters at that point were simply on a lifesaving mission. they could not save these properties. there was nothing they could do. the best they could go over the last 24 hours or so has been to get people out, to get them to safety. look up here. as you look up the street you can see the smoke rising into the sky. it is really an apocalyptic scene in one of l.a.'s iconic neighborhoods. so many homes and so much has burned. we don't have updated numbers as yet. we'll probably get them at the news conference.

frankly just on my drive around the palisades there is no way that the numbers of destroyed homes and businesses is not going to be well into the hundreds. we've also seen schools are burned down. my son's previous middle school was on fire last night. paul revere is brentwood. my daughter's current high school was on fire last night. we're still waiting for an update whether that school, which has something like 3 thousand students in the high school, will be able to go back to school when they are due next monday. they may be back to remote learning once again. but this is what is happening across street after street after street in the pacific palisades. frankly, the firefighters have to just let these places burn. they are doing everything they can but so many homes already lost, dana. >> dana: jonathan, watching this you are watching people's livelihoods, hopes, dreams, all

their pictures and all their -- their entire life is going up in flames. you also mentioned in the last hour and worth revisiting for people just joining us that you said that nearby -- these are some large homes that we're seeing here. you said that's not the case in that entire neighborhood. >> back off a little, brian. the embers are blowing now and getting wind gusts again. get back here, brian. you are right. you look at this home, for instance, this was maybe a three bedroom average home, middle class by pacific palisades standards and yeah, this street i'm on right now is not one of those where you have the tv producers and actors and people like tom hanks and steve gutenberg live up here. there are thousands of ordinary people living in relatively ordinary homes and they have lost absolutely everything. it is a small thing but struck me.

small slice of the paradise we live in. fruit trees in this person's backyard and right behind it paradise on earth, hell on earth. it is an extraordinary juxtaposition we're seeing today in a neighborhood which frankly never, ever expected it. they've seen fires before up in the hills behind them but for it to sweep down as it did yesterday and just go through this entire neighborhood. all the stores where everybody is there every weekend out enjoying the pacific palisades. so much of it is just gone and more of it going by the minute. >> dana: thank you so much. stay savings you and your cameraman there. >> bill: remarkable stuff with the sun up. take our viewers through what we believe is occurring right now and what has happened and transpired over the past 18 hours, all right? you have three major fires. this right here is the woodley fire we just reported. we'll be getting you more information on that. this is downtown los angeles

down here. i will put the map in motion a little bit and take you through the timeline how quickly this wildfire started in the palisades area and how quickly it spread, too, okay? let's go to our first graphic here, this is 5:00 in the afternoon new york yesterday. 2:00 local time. it is midday in california. this is the palisades fire. just to give you a sense of the bearings, here is the the santa monica pier here. rivera golf club, palisades area and the pacific coast highway leading away from los angeles into malibu, all right? this is the size of the fire at 2:00 in the afternoon local time. this is what happened an hour later at 3:00 local time. this is 6:00 local time, sun starting to go down in california. you can see how big it got in just a three-hour period of time.

it tripled or quadrupled in size. this is 3:00 in the morning our time. just after midnight you see it grow yet again. this morning before we came on the air, dana, this is what we're looking at. that one specific fire which is right here, palisades fire right along the coast there. want to get to nick mccormick. a victim trying to reach his mother. you saw those bulldozers give you access. how did this all develop and what is the status now, nick? >> yeah, thanks for having me on. yeah, so yesterday was pretty hectic and through this morning a lot of devastation for my friends and family. yesterday i was heading up to the pacific palisades area around 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. to have a normal coffee with my mom and as i was heading north on pch we saw the fire start to

erupt and by the time i was able to make it up to the pch and sunset boulevard area everything was shut down at 10:00 or 10:30 in the morning. next thing everybody in the upper highlands and palisades was trapped. they were letting some traffic down but after about an hour of that, none of the residents up there were able to get down because the lower palisades residents were abandoning their cars in the middle of the road. some of the videos you see here are from our instagram earlier yesterday. yeah, it was a stressful scene. we got most of the residents out and all of us at the bottom of the hill were able to do what we could to help those as they were coming down. >> dana: can you describe the feeling, nick, of what you think you might discover as the sun comes up and we get a better view as to what's going on? >> dana, my phone has been

blowing up from friends, family, people that we all grew up in the palisades area. it is not a lot of good news. a lot of friends and family's homes have been burned. as you see a lot of images that you guys have been showing all morning. these are the streets we grew up on. it doesn't look good for a lot of the neighborhoods, the high schools, the middle schools, the small businesses that we grew up going to. it seems a lot of that has been devastated. >> bill: nick, what will you do today? you sit back and wait, hope and pray and keep your fingers crossed? >> right now we're fostering a lot of -- our parents and friends and family who have had to evacuate the area. luckily l.a. is big and there are a lot of us who don't live specifically in that area anymore. but basically we'll -- i think there is a lot of people who need prayer right now and that's

what we'll do. i don't think they'll let us back in that area for quite a while. but yesterday we tried to get water and tried to get people evacuated and help the response personnel as much as we could. but there comes a point when the fire is just too crazy that we weren't able to be there anymore. for now just praying. >> dana: nick mccormick, thank you so much and we're sorry for what you are losing there and we'll stay in touch. >> bill: remarkable to think his story is one of so many. you look at those flames right now take on that car and street in malibu. nick, thank you, good luck and we'll stay in contact with you and your neighbors. thanks. >> thank you guys. >> dana: another story. they are all on board. now republicans are looking for a way forward to pass president-elect trump's agenda. can they come up with a plan in their meeting happening later today. senator john cornyn joins us

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>> bill: follow the bouncing ball on all this now. coming down to crunch time.

the justice department says it will release one of two volumes from the special counsel's report on donald trump trying to interfere with the election results of 2020. the second volume will not be released according to the d.o.j. and merrick garland a moment ago. what the difference is between the two we aren't sure but will sort through it as we go. in the meantime we're waiting for the u.s. supreme court to maybe take up the donald trump's legal case to try and defy judge merchan from sentencing him in 48 hours. so the trump team is looking for a stay on that order. they might get it. we'll see whether or not that happens. stand by. more coming up on that in moments. >> dana: eric shawn is reporting live. let's have him give us an update. >> it is now up to the supreme court to decide the next step in terms of president trump's

sentencing. his lawyers filed an emergency motion to the high court this morning top stop that sentencing set for 48 hours on friday. the bid goes to sonia sotomayor because she handles the jurisdiction of new york and then refer it to the full court to decide if trump's lawyers are correct. they've been arguing the trump sentencing for felony counts of paying off stormy daniels. it should not go forward friday because the high court has already given the presidents wide immunity for official acts. they claim quote the new york trial court lacks authority to impose sentence and judgment on president trump or conduct any further criminal proceedings against him. trump spokesman tells us this. the supreme court's historic decision on immunity, the constitution and established legal precedent mandate that this meritless hoax be immediately dismissed. you know manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is countering that trump's actions were before he was president and

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as it develops. >> bill: more breaking news. later on the hill president-elect trump will be there meeting with senate republicans. one of those is with me now, texas senator john cornyn. good morning and thank you for your time. you guys will get cozy. a meeting later tonight and plans for all of you to go down to mar-a-lago in florida before the inauguration. see how that develops and how many republicans go. on this question of one bill or two bills, it seems to be rather pressing because this really defines the trump agenda. what would you support? one big bill or take a border bill first that you think you are pretty assured you could pass and maybe with some democratic support, do that first and then work on the second half later? what do you think is the best strategy? >> i'm for whatever it takes to get the job done. you know, we get all balled up in congress about process and procedures. what we owe to the american people who elected president

trump decisively in this last election is to move his agenda forward. first thing we have to do is all get on the same page. so i appreciate tonight. i know he has been working with speaker johnson and once we all get on the same page then we can get to work because time is wasting. >> bill: indeed. something from yesterday that passed in the house. the laken riley act. senate will get an opportunity to act on this. you need 60 total. you need about eight democrats. john fetterman was on special report last night. he seems to be one of the eight. watch here and listen. >> well, i think if we can't -- there are 47 of us in the senate. and if we can't pull up with seven votes, if we can't get at least 7 out of 47, if we can't that's the reason why we lost. it is one of why we lost, in

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to flee and leaving everything behind. william la jeunesse is live in malibu. the first chance to talk to you since the sun has come up. what do you see? >> it is still rather cloudy, if you will. you can see smoke is really heavy. i want to show you what's going on behind me. it is fascinating. you've seen this morning or at least i have about a dozen houses get burned up. it's right along the coast highway. so close together. they're -- looks like they're trying to save the next house, right? 14 houses have been destroyed and trying to douse it with water to try to stop it there. i talked to one of the firefighters there and said it all depends on the wind how far it will go. you might see some water falling off a roof down there. they've been drenching that structure the last 15 minutes. then i will have keith slowly pan over to the left. he will be able to show you how many houses have been destroyed today. literally it just went one after the other since early this

morning. now we're along coast highway. the scene is not unique. there are several places between here and pepperdine where multiple homes are also being destroyed. this fire started yesterday. we lost a little house there. this started yesterday in the palisades around 10:in the morning in a residential area and why it is a perfect storm. you have the challenging topography of malibu. densely populated area of the palisades and no rain for several months and these super high winds. we're talking about 80 to 90 miles-per-hour in the mountains. on the coast 40 to 50 miles-per-hour and that just led to the situation we have right now. down in the palisades yesterday when this thing started, people were told to evacuate and there was nowhere for them to go. there was gridlock on sunset. people told to get out of their cars and run for their lives if they wanted to survive. in fact, many did.

in fact, several cars that had to be moved by bulldozers to make way for the fire engines. that is the the situation as it is now. fire resources are stretched thin, dana. we expect still high winds throughout the day. >> bill: unbelievable to see there. william, i have felt for a long time. the pacific ocean is 30 yards behind you across the road. oftentimes when you get these fires the road prevents the fire from getting to those homes that you just showed us. but if you were to drive along the pacific coast highway, you see that row of houses along the pacific ocean. what you just showed us is all those homes are gone. so when the smoke clears out you will see the pacific. >> yeah. i wish i could show it to you now. it is a stone's throw away across pch. as you know and trying to say, this is normally a row of

uninterrupted houses from the palisades to zuma beach. $5 million homes minimum and they're overlooking the water. some on stilts water going right underneath them and yet they are all gone. it is difficult already to get insurance in california. this is going to make it worse. in fact, the supervisor said many people in palisades who don't have insurance. i know that's true in malibu as well, right? haven't been able to get it. the concerning thing to me is firefighters just haven't had the resources. in a fire like this this morning i would see a dozen -- several engines and yet there were two guys here, right? that's it. they had to let it go. all the way in this morning they were undermanned. houses on fire, nobody there. >> bill: wow, through the smoke and fog lies the pacific ocean. we'll see it soon enough. william, thank you. tough to watch. >> dana: these wind gusts are reaching 100 miles-per-hour.

hard to imagine. this is fueling the catastrophic damage in los angeles. >> i wish we had better news for you, right? los angeles, watching these fires closely. you talked about the palisades fire, right through, pch here. i've been working in that market for so long and the terrain is tricky. the woodley fire is close to a dam, a basin there. the u.s. corps of engineers built this dam after the flood of 1938 and very recreational. 1.8 million people who live in the san fernando valley alone. hearst fire. the gabriel fire. they go up about 3 thousand feet. we have the perfect situation where the winds come down off the mountains. compressing and heating pressure grading is so tight that we're dealing with more in the way of gusty winds today. you talk about some of those

strong wind gusts. near here, the wind gusts are like a hurricane. woodland hills is not far from where we saw the burning fire in woodley. today winds continue to gust and strongest winds for 4 to 5 hours. when they die down today they'll gust 30 to 40 miles-per-hour. >> dana: thank you to everybody at fox weather. >> bill: they show the story there. a planned briefing less than 30 minutes from now top of the hour. we're waiting on that. one of those who will be briefing at that hour is kathryn barber from the l.a. county board of supervisors. good morning to you. tough day. >> i know. i think william painted the picture pretty well and you saw firsthand what's going on. >> bill: we're getting reports that no water is coming out of the fire hydrant.

we're getting reports you can't get aircraft in the air because the winds are too dangerous right now. what is your best defense? >> first of all our fire chief has made it clear that when and if we can get the air fighting to occur we'll do it. but it has to be safe and effective. so that is something that is being evaluated as we speak. hopefully we'll have more information when we have the press briefing at 8:00. what i'm telling people especially in my district. what makes it so complicated and perfect storm will be used quite a bit. this is not just in the palisades. it is now in my district in eaton canyon and pasadena area and moving toward santa clarita. our resources are stretched thin. we asked for out of state resources to help us fight this. it is obvious to us that we don't have the personnel on the

ground right now to do an effective fighting of it. we're doing the best we can. >> bill: kathryn, if you put an aircraft in the air, what type of plane could be of use right now in these conditions? >> we've got both. we've got the planes that we have contacted with and our helicopters and tankers, they're very effective so it is both fixed wing as well as helicopters and the chief made it clear it's not safe it's not worth loss of life to get them up there and wouldn't be effective because they wouldn't hit the target. hopefully by 8:00 we'll know if the condition will allow us to get up the fixed wing that are effective. these pilots, when i've watched them do air droppings, it is absolutely incredible.

i know that the firefighters on the ground really need them and are very frustrated that they don't have it. but i promise you this, if we are able to, we'll get them up. >> bill: kathryn, the mayor is in west africa on a trip that was pre-scheduled in ghana. do you know if karen bass is on her way back to los angeles. >> she is. i've been in contact with her. she is very, very, very engaged in this and is going to be here today and so i -- you know, she is -- with technology the way it is she has been in contact up in the air and will be landing this morning and is going to hit the ground running. the fact the mayor isn't in town doesn't mean we aren't getting the resources we need. the president of the city council, who will be at the press briefing, is fully engaged as well.

so yeah. >> bill: thank you for your time. i know you are up to your eyes in all this and thank you, good luck. we're pulling for you and watch the briefing in 20 minutes. >> thank you. >> dana: in another story president-elect trump sharing his vision to expand america's influence around the world and president biden is trying to patch up his legacy on his way out the door. martha maccallum joins us on all that next.

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>> bill: so you know from geography class it's called the gulf of mexico. president donald trump has a whole new idea to rename it. he is considering it gulf of america. one of the many ideas he put forth yesterday. nate foye has the follow-up from west palm beach, florida. >> president-elect donald trump will meet with senate republicans tonight in washington, d.c. to discuss advancing his domestic agenda. some of his foreign policy goals are drawing some strong reaction from world leaders today. particularly trump floating the idea of a u.s./canada merger and renaming the gulf of mexico if next company doesn't stop the illegal flow of migrants across

our southern border. >> we'll 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. >> take a look at this. mexico's president responded to trump this morning pointing to a map and saying the gulf of mexico name is internationally recognized. outgoing canadian prime minister justin trudeau responded to trump's idea of the u.s./canada. trump said canada is so dependent on the u.s. for economic and national security it may as well be america's 51st state and posted the map showing the countries united and captioned it quote, o canada, trump wouldn't rule out using military force to acquire greenland where his son visited yesterday or the panama canal.

>> we need greenland for national security purposes. the panama canal is vital to our country and it is being operated by china, china. we gave the panama canal to panama, not china. they've abused that gift. >> and not to be left out trump sent a message to the middle east particularly hamas saying if the terrorist organization doesn't release its hostages by the time that he takes office, quote, all hell will break loose in the region. bill. >> bill: nate, thanks. we're ready for all of it. nate foye in west palm. >> dana: president biden sitting down for an exit interview with usa today. the reporter asked him whether he could have won the election. he said this, i think yes, the article goes on to say he expressed no such confident when asked whether he had the vigor to serve another four years in office. he said i don't know.

martha maccallum joins us now. the gallup poll asking how do you think president biden will go down in history? outstanding 6%, above average 13%, average and below average and poor making up the rest of those numbers. >> below average and below come to 54%. the exit interview and we're watching the jimmy carter funeral procession and discussing his presidency. one term presidents tend to not fare all that well as history looks back on them. you know, there is a reason that he is a one-term president. the numbers that we see here and pointing fingers in all kinds of places for the blame to go around and talking about how well he knows foreign leaders, which really did not end up accruing to any real progress, those relationships he talks about that fact that he was able to build.

i don't think that any of this reflects a presidency that will be very well remembered. we'll see as history plays out. >> bill: his comments about the pardon. and he hopes it doesn't set a precedent. read it if you want to check it out. it is a long interview here. democrats under fire for not blowing the horn earlier. the headline. democrats under fire for not sounding the alarm earlier on biden. says one unnamed democratic senator is quoted saying i think it is coming big time who predicted a wave of recriminations for not asking tough questions earlier about joe biden. in this article here, martha, chuck schumer talking about him being okay. richard blumenthal from connecticut, bob casey from pennsylvania, debbie establish know from michigan. nobody was pulling the alarm. >> they all have to answer to the wn that the country was in during all of this and what is their responsibility as

leadership members in the united states government. inflation was really out of control for a long time during this presidency. the cost of housing was rising dramatically. we almost never heard from the president. we didn't hear him answering to these things. that's a problem. it's a responsive job and engaged job. we were told he was only really engaged from 10:00 to 4:00. we saw the invasion of israel by hamas, we saw the invasion of ukraine by russia. all of these things happened on his watch. so how capable he was, how engaged he was in a national security question. i think that the responsibility was on these individuals and more to be more forthcoming about how capable he was to do the job. >> bill: one more thing here. he told susan page he could beat trump but he didn't necessarily suggest that he would have the vigor to endure the next four years. >> dana: he said i don't know.

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faulkner will have the press conference. >> bill: we have the video at the very beginning of our program. from the moment a fire was surrounding a man's home. we don't have a ton of detail but just watch this as he captures the moment that he and his own dog had to get out. >> it will be okay, all right? you are going to be okay. >> bill: remarkable stuff. don't know what came of all this but we'll find out in time. dana, you were looking at videos on x and as we said the sun came up an hour ago. there is one video on pacific palisades that will break your heart. >> dana: it basically shows complete devastation of a wildfire that went through a very populated urban area and

there is not much left. some trees survived and so they've got a long way to go as the mayor of los angeles is on her way back from africa. she was there for inauguration of a new leader in ghana. she is on her way back and board of supervisors say she is in touch. a tough time to be away when your city is dealing with historic flames. >> bill: here is another one before we get out of here. close call. california man trying to fight the fires. this video shows him trying to take a hose to towering flame. has no chance at this. a photographer warns him to get back and then this happens here. >> dana: it broke. >> you need to evacuate.

>> dana: that was the before and here is the after, same man. >> dana: god bless. this is unlike other natural disasters like with a hurricane you can prepare. you know it is coming. this one really caught people unawares. we will continue to cover this. the press conference by the l.a. supervisor starts in 10 minutes. >> bill: unfortunately the beginning of thousands and thousands of stories in california. our best to them. >> dana: harris faulkner will take you through the next hour. here she is. >> harris: breaking news, america's largest city on the west coast is burn