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>> this is so hard to watch. these are people's lives and homes. their cars pallet on top of each other. >> the fire is moving so fast and exploding because of the wind. >> it's like... >> we are live in malibu. this is lower malibu. if you went down the pacific coast highway here about a half a mile that's santa monica. right behind us in these mountains is wear the palisades fire is burning. that is pacific palisades. we are talking about 11,000 acres that i burned right now. the associated press now reporting that it is the most

single destructive fire in the history of los angeles. you talk about in this area some 50,000 people who have evacuated. you look over here, this was the topanga ranch motel. it is now gone. on the other side of the pacific coast highway is the ocean and the homes on the other side, most of them up and down are gone and then you have the eden fire which is in pasadena. it's also above 10,000 acres now they got at least hundreds of homes there, 1000 homes in the palisades destroyed and other structures. about 35 minutes ago we took a drive up the road here and got deeper into malibu to give you an idea of exactly how fast this fire is moving. watch this. i want to give you an idea of how fast this was moving in the early hours. you see the hillside how it was burned all the way down.

this is the pacific coast highway. right now we are in southern malibu, just north of pacific palisades that was devastated. let's let these vehicles go across and we will walk across the road. the fire came down this hill and then it crossed over pacific coast highway. you can see some of the power lines here. this poll was burned in half. as you walk over here you can see the oceanfront homes here. this one is clearly still on fire. there's not a lot of water in this area so as you go down the line there's not really a lot that fire crews can do to protect the rest of these homes but if you come over here you can see the ocean and the oceanfront homes. multimillion dollar oceanfront homes and as far as the eye can see down here, it is home after home destroyed, burned to the ground. and this is malibu, where the crux of the fire hasn't even gotten to yet.

as you come down to lower malibu you can see the power lines are all down. some of them buried in half, some of them snapped in half. in this area the hotel was one of the first casualties as you start moving up the coastline. we want to go back in, the mountains behind me, that's where matt finn's standing by live in a neighbourhood up there. what do you see? >> we were on air for a few hours and i was reporting from this exact location. we watched red-hot flames ripped through this community last night and now that we have daylight we can see that there are no homes standing. a countless number of homes were right here on this hillside, now burned to the ground. as you are experiencing, the winds are still very intense. we have difficulty stabilizing ourselves. these hurricane-force winds are continuing right now. crews are here are seeing embers

being carried by these winds. more buyers kicking up. we saw parts of the... birding a short while ago. we stood basically right in the central retail area of the pacific palisades and watched restaurants burning. also seeing homes burning as well in the palisades. this is nowhere near over. jonathan hunt has been bring you video of homes burning. to my left which is what is so remarkable is the fire has basically come down the hillside to the palisades, scorched the earth, burned all the structures it possibly could and other fire and the smoke is dumping out into the pacific ocean. any recite to see the smoke billowing and emptying out over the water. parts of the palisades, we did a tour a short while ago, they are levelled. it's a very charming community.

there are a lot of high-end homes up there but there is also everyday americans like these homes behind us. it's a very family oriented community and one of our correspondence talking about have asked mike how schools have been levelled out there. it's hard to imagine wear and how this ends but from right now businesses, homes and structures are still burning in the pacific palisades and beyond. >> thank you. i want to show you beeks cut -- because you can see the path of the fire as you come down from the hills in the palisade. you come down mountains. this is the hill we were talking about. the hotel is gone but the wind picks up and it carries through these canyons and with it it carries the flames and the embers. they were saying at one point in time that you had these embers that were going 1000 feet per second. you can imagine how fast they

were travelling when they got to the ocean. will want to go back to the pacific palisades and the different neighbourhood were the chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live. what you seeing? >> matt was talking about how this ends, it is not ending anytime soon as you can see here. this is another home that had just caught fire in about the last 20 minutes. as we stood here it's on its way to burning to the ground. the thick smoke is coming across as well. the windows on that thing could explode at any moment but we were with martha earlier and saying that the problem here is that you've got a fire like that gets started by one like this just across the street. this was a home that was burning while we were talking to martha at the top of her show and i was saying that the embers from this

get blown in these intense gusts of wind we've been seeing and they can land anywhere. while you have trucks, they do not have the resources to get to everyone of these homes that catches fire. we are now in the middle of this one burning down as you can see, the flames got more and more intense. and this is just a repeating instance right across the palisades. we have seen this throughout the hours we have been here. and obviously it's now been going on for more than 24 hours. in the palisades as we've driven around, they haven't put an official figure on the number of structures lost. i personally have seen hundreds of homes lost today and i'm sorry my eyes are pouring with water as we try to make our way through the thick smoke that is

coming from that house. i personally have seen hundreds destroyed. goodness knows what the final figures are going to be. i don't think it's an exaggeration to say that this is likely to be one of the worst natural disasters in california's history. at least in terms of the numbers of properties lost and it's homes, it's businesses. the village which is such a nice area that my children who they attended a charter high school know very well. it's largely gone right now. the high school itself, 30% of the buildings are damaged. they will have to look into what they do with 3000 students who redo back at that charter school from the winter break next monday but they me back to remote learning. as you can see as the visibility just dips here again, these winds command across, the smoke filling in. more and more homes going on fire, there's a long road ahead for the firefighters here and

goodness knows how the pacific palisades recovers from this. it is largely destroyed. a vast swath of this relatively affluent community. is due -- it is extra neri to watch. and all the years that we've covered fires i can honestly say i have never seen anything as powerful, anything as destructive as this particular fire. >> thank you we will get back to you in moments. he makes a good point win he talks about the winds up there. jonathan is upon the hills above us and he talks about the winds up there. they come down here, we are still getting gusts of 60, 65 miles per hour. overnight they were getting wind gusts up to 98 miles per hour which is really what pushed these flames across and it was just no way to fight it.

let's bring in the sheriff of los angeles county. thank you for some -- thank you were coming on. it looks like pacific palisades is devastated. the first question is how does the sheriff's department, how you protect the city while people are out of their homes? >> it is absolutely our responsibility to be there for our community. to be there to evacuate, making sure people are safe and they are not seriously injured or killed. number 2 is to secure that location. at times we have individuals that will take advantage of the unfortunate circumstances and to try to steal things. we are making sure we have adequate staffing not only at the fire that you are reporting from but the other fires that are impacting our county and i'm very proud of our employees for the last 48 hours they've been

out there in the conditions that your viewers are seeing and you're doing a good job reporting the chaos and it gets worse at night when you can't see. this is our community, i can report that i've talked to several of our employees today that have lost hopes in that area and the other fire we have going on. we are feeling this even here at home. >> you talk about these couple of fires. there was a third fire, it exploded to about 500 acres. it was northeast of the eaton fire. but it really is the focus now on the palisades fire and the eaton fire. hundreds of homes they are also destroyed. are you worried about your resources? you know we are very lean on resources with firefighters in california. what about the sheriff's department, are you also lean on

resources? >> all of us have staffing challenges but we have to step up to the plate and under circumstances like this we are calling people in. we have additional people that will be working a lot of our normal responsibilities will stay on the shelf. we are still responding to calls for service throughout the county but our priority is working with our partners and unified command. regarding the even fire i've heard miraculous stories this morning of our deputy sheriffs going out firsthand and saving lives. we did lose... but we have multiple stories saving lives from the last 48 hours both in the palisades fire and then also the other fire. >> we are getting these winds behind us. these are very powerful winds,

these fires, still no containment. are you hearing any word on how these fires might have started? 's. >> no. it would all be speculation. they are both under investigation. we're going to try to get to the source of what started this. >> you are mentioning about the high winds and for those folks out there that are not familiar. it's been made very clear by our chief that they are having a difficult time. it's almost impossible to get aircraft up in the air and that's a very effective mechanism for fighting these fires and that is not doable in the last 24 hours. >> even if they could get these airplanes up in the air and some

of these fire retardant planes, it would be kind of a shot in the dark because when they dump it with these winds so high it's just unknown wear it would push to so it's really a fruitless effort. do you see fema and others bringing more resources in here to help, have you on your office called out for more resources around the state, what's the process? >> for us in the county, i am responsible for mutual aid. i'm the coordinator for this region. i immediately was receiving calls from the office of emergency services from the state offering any resources that they could. i know our fire department has been asking for them and they are starting to receive those from a law enforcement perspective. they are asking us right now, we are doing okay but we understand this isn't going to be over tonight or tomorrow so we are preparing for the worst,

planning for the worst i should say as we move on. any resource that we are asking for either through the state or the federal government, they are willing to give it to us and we are extremely grateful for that level of collaboration. >> sheriff thank you for spending your time with us, we appreciate your analysis and appreciate your comments. we want to go back and point out the winds. they come and go down here and we are on low land, protected by some of the mountains. you can imagine what it's like as they were talking about up there. up next we will talk to a meteorologist. the winds were supposed to die down around 9:00 this morning now here in los angeles it's past 1:00 in the afternoon and we are wondering win these winds are finally going to dissipate. that would be a big factor in helping firefighters get a handle on this. up next to the weather aspect of what the ap is now calling the

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i want to show you this, just to give you an idea of how hot the fires were burning and how high the winds where, this is a ladder that was part of this hotel. the hotel is gone, the latter is still there but it wouldn't be much help to firefighters. the winds keep coming down the canyons as you look at the flames and there is no evidence at all that there is any containment on this fire. want to get to kendall smith to get an idea of when the winds are going to drop and when firefighters might be able to get planes in the air. >> that is the big concern right now and also the big question as this is a very devastating and deadly, horrific wildfire events. we were looking southern california -- california as we been watching as the acreage burned. now over 22,000 acres with more than 300,000 residents currently under evacuation orders. the palisades fire which is

burning near santa monica right now, this has doubled in size. 11,800 acres burned. the eaton fire also has increased to 10,000, almost 11,000 acres burned. the biggest issue has been the fact that we've had incredibly strong wind throughout the day. we've had winds gusting upwards of 80 to 90, even 100 miles per hour and that is why as of right now taking a look across the state of california, 395,000 customers are without power at this time. the number has continue to increase as well. it's coming in at the number 1 place, 24% of the entire county is without power. los angeles coming in at 7%. hears those top just like i was mentioning. ranging between 90 to 100 miles per hour. and that begs the question when our conditions going to improve? as we look at our current alerts, we've got 30 million people that are under some type

of wind alert from gusts upwards of 60 to 80 miles per hour. this is going to be in place for los angeles all the way down to san diego. these alerts will stay in effect through 6:00 this evening as well as our wind advisories with potential for widespread gusts anywhere between 40 to 50 miles per hour. as we look ahead in time we are anticipating conditions to improve slightly. we are going to watch as we head into friday as well but still those winds will continue to howell as this is the strongest wind event that we have dealt with in nearly 14 years. >> can you imagine what kendall was saying there, try fighting a fire in the equivalent of category two strength winds. it would be unbelievable. want to bring in... he's a prejudiced -- residents but he's now in venice because he evacuated his home. what you know about the status

of your home? everybody okay and what can you tell us about the people you know in the area? >> i'm very lucky to be here and i was looking at local news. there was a house completely on fire. most people have evacuated but some are still sticking around because there's so much for history and so many trees in my neighbourhood that it's really easy for fire to catch a hold and our whole neighbourhood is surrounded from the east, west and south from that particular fire. >> can you give us -- tell us when you left last night and when you decided to leave and was this something wear you had to grab family members, you had to grab pat's, what was the

process like for you? >> we lost power at 5:00 p.m. and from ignition it was four hours until evacuation. we left the area at 7:00 p.m. last night. i grabbed my dog, grabbed our emergency documents, we have a fire bag. we are pretty prepared for emergencies like this but it was such a quick evacuation notice that it was just a mass exit leaving the canyon area there in altadena. i headed about 4 miles east and we got an alert to evacuate at 5:00 a.m. we went back home to check their and at 5:30 i saw an apocalyptic seen that i had never seen before. we had 70 mile-per-hour winds, we had the fires. we had palm trees down in our neighbourhood. it was a complete disaster. you never knew whether fire was coming from that was the scary part of it all.

>> we are on my phone, we are in the middle of these and they are still giving alerts that the county of los angeles, giving alerts telling people that different areas are still evacuating. this is still something in progress. have you been told and given any updates on when firefighters might be able to clear some of these areas in your area? >> not at all because they rely on the national forest service, they rely on the fire department. there's about 750 firefighters there now but they are stretched so thin because the fires not only come from the hillside but it's gone into the neighbourhood we have absolute zero notice of one we can go home or even if our homes are still there. >> the best of luck to you and your family, thank you for

coming on, we appreciated. we are alive again in malibu. we are in lower malibu. we will take you up a little further up north to the homes on the beach. home after home, dozens of homes on the water destroyed. meantime we are also getting word that president trump is about to arrive on capitol hill to meet with g.o.p. senators. it's all about the president-elect's robust agenda. his aggressive agenda and how much he wants to accomplish. we will talk to senator mike rounds with more on that and life russ on capitol hill coming up on your world.

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you may not be able to read that sign but that was about 24 hours ago the real in restaurant, one of the most historic seafood restaurants in southern california that is now gone. 1000 homes and structures lost in the palisades fire in pacific palisades and that's where max gordon is in one of the neighbourhoods up there. were you seeing? >> i'm just a little ways down the highway near the intersection of pch and sunset boulevard in this mobile home community that was destroyed by the palisades fire. is fire growing to 11,800 acres and you can see the devastation all around me. these homes reduce to their foundations. off to the east of us, the eaton fire has now torn up 10,600 acres and has killed two people. these fires have been fuelled by

fierce winds. one gust was measured at 100 miles per hour and we are expecting more gust of words of 60 miles per hour through tomorrow. the danger is not yet over as firefighters continued his battle. >> thank you so much. we were talking about how many times we've eaten at the real in you would take them here. it's interesting because you see all the power lines that are down and if you look up and you can see some of the palm trees, the winds have died down a bit but down they are you have embers and things that are burning and you can see the wind is still picking up. it's a big deal to try to get some of these planes. let's get to our fox meteorologist to give us an idea of what we can expect these winds to finally start dying down. >> they might not actually be a good situation right now but

it's an improving situation. these used to spread all the way across southern california. you are still looking in those blues. you can still see at times gust 60 to 80 miles per hour. really powerful winds are still in the forecast but this will run you a little bit of a future forecast model and we run through the afternoon and the evening hours, 20, 30, 40, 50 ma per hour winds. tomorrow morning there's more places were you see little to no wind. there will be times were it goes up to 40 or 50 and that's enough to spur these on nothing like we saw last night or like we've seen the first half of the day. this is an improving situation but there is still enough wind out there that it doesn't completely get rid of the risk. that's why you see this pink on your screen. that's of critical fire risk and tomorrow it's just read. any slow down in that wind is good. this last until friday. we look at that air alert. yes the fires are a big concern

but that air quality is falling rapidly and we are looking at horrible air quality across the area so even people who aren't dealing with the fire need to stay inside as it is really difficult to breed out there -- brief >> that smoke comes down from the palisades down here to malibu. the air quality here is absolutely horrendous and it is all over southern california because of the smoke. what they need here more than anything is resources. they needed more water, more help and they could use the federal government's assistant. on that note we are going to talk to fema administrator deanne criswell next

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>> we are seeing a lot of firefighters go up north into malibu canyon and it's interesting because it really is when you talk about homes on the ocean, hit and miss when it comes to weather your home stays or is destroyed. we were up there a short time ago, watch. >> we are a little bit further up the road a couple of miles

from pacific palisades and i wanted to show you how hit and miss these firestorms are. if you look behind me over there you can see all of these oceanfront homes on the water in malibu are still fully intact but as you come down here a few hundred yards you can see on the top of the hill over here across the pacific coast highway you have a home that is untouched and then as you go down the hill you have homes that were burned to the ground. i want to show you this because it's kind of interesting. the pacific coast highway you have a lifeguard tower, nothing happened to it. untouched. you go down here and if you walk down with me you can see this car burned out. you see homes untouched nuc homes burned and then you get down here as you get close to the water. this is malibu. these are tens of millions of dollars of homes and you get down here to the rocks near the ocean and you see nothing but

devastation all the way down the coast. look at these homes over here. all of them all the way down the beach for almost three quarters of a mile burned to the sand. we saw home after home like that. we want to bring in deanne criswell. thank you so much for joining us on the show today. the department of defense is saying because the winds are so bad they can't get any assets up in the air at all. one do federal assets, when do you plan move them into california? >> what we're seeing right now here in california is truly tragic and there are resources in the state. there is resources from many other states that have come into. i know the president has verbally approved the disaster declaration today and we are working with the team right now to get the specifics of exactly what he needs but this opens up

our ability to send and resources to help with the individuals that have been impacted when sheltering and some of the costs that they have. the dod is -- as soon as it safe to -- for them to go and they will be sending additional resources and personnel into that area. >> i know you are in d.c. and you plan to come to california on friday. is there more that you plan to do, is there more assets that you plan to commit once you get here, is it you want to come to take a look and see exactly what's happening before you commit to whatever resources what -- resources are needed? >> we have staff, impact my administrator is embedded working through exactly what they need and we will continue to send resources in. what i want to be able to do is see firsthand what those impacts are. i want to understand what these

people are experiencing and talk to them about what they are worried about so i can ensure that we are providing everything that we possibly can to help them with their pursuit -- specific needs. i can't get that feeling from sitting here, i need to be on the ground, hearing from the people. we will send resources and at the state needs them and ensure that they have everything that they ask for. >> one of the local politicians and the local leaders asking for what's the primary concern? i know we are short on water, we are short on resources. is it firefighters or what exactly are we pointing toward? >> i think this is a really dynamic situation and one of the biggest things that fema is going to be able to provide is that support for the individuals that have been impacted, that are in shelters, that are relocated. they are the ones...

they have the expertise about exactly which resources are needed. a lot of it is dependent on the conditions as you said. the winds themselves are limiting how much they can support from air that's one of our greatest ways to be able to support these fire suppression efforts. they will continue to move those -- those resources in. we also want to be able to come in and augment them and support the people that have been impacted. >> are some of those resources already here in california? >> much of what we are going to be able to do is reimburse the state for the things that they have already expended. it depends on what they have. we do have staging areas with commodities and supplies that are in northern california at that's what they need. we can move that down so we do have some there. >> deanne criswell thank you for your time, we appreciated. >> thank you. >> coming up we will give you an

update as you can see the winds are picking back up. the firefighters are still on scene in these neighbourhoods but they can't put any assets in the air at all. they can't fight this from the air, they can only fight it from the ground. they are low on water, low on personnel. tragedy and destruction.d we will continue our breaking news coverage of the fires in los angeles.

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♪ ♪ >> we continue to look at the devastation here in southern california, malibu, pacific palisades, pasadena, also dena, some resources and fire engines coming down from central california so more people are on the move. that is a good scene. if it is not focused here there is a lot of focus on capitol hill where president-elect trump is about to meet with g.o.p. senators to talk about his bold agenda. let's bring in senator mike rounds, who will be in that meeting. senator, thank you for joining us. we talk about this very aggressive agenda, there is a lot of question whether we can cram this into one bill or two bills, what is your thought on that, sir? >> we don't care. we will do it either way. right now, the hope is to be together and build a team to get the job done, one way or another we are going to get it done. we know how important this is to the american people. this is not only a continuation of tax policy from the

president's previous administration to where people will not have a huge tax increase at the end of the year, but along with that we made a commitment that we would get the border under control, and that means literally as a team appear, republicans of both the house and the senate, hopefully with some of our democrat colleagues, as well, actually creating a border defense that works. along with that, building our defense secretary capabilities, as well, opening up our energy resources once again add additional revenue, as well. we can do it. we think in the senate two bills may work as big as we can, a lot of it right away, we know we have to get them both done and we are going to work with the house to get it done. >> so you think it might slow it down if you cram it all into one bill. you mentioned the immigration and you mentioned taxes. anything else on your wish list? anything else you believe should be in that first bill, if it is a 2-bill situation? >> the most important part is to get our economy going again, and

that means more energy resources being made available, but it also means creating that strong defensive posture so that the rest of the world takes note of the fact that we are very serious about defending our country, but also speaking from a position of strength for the president of the united states and the future. >> do you anticipate, senator, that the president-elect is going to try to compel very quick confirmation of his cabinet members? >> he won't have to try to compel because we want the same thing. we are all on the same team. we want to get those individuals across the finish line as quickly as possible. we are working our way through it right now, having hearings beginning next week before the inauguration, we hope to have a number of those individuals ready on day one for a final passage through the united states senate. we've got some paperwork to do but that is always the way it is in washington, d.c. >> it is the way it is in washington, d.c. i am wondering what you hope

comes out of this meeting today, lastly, sir. >> first of all, it is a team building effort, and it is one we want to hear from the president what he wants to get done, the priorities he has, a reaffirmation that it will be rebuilding this economy, getting inflation under control, developing our energy resources once again as quickly as we possibly can, but also reestablishing for the rest of the world the fact we are here and not going anyplace and that when we do negotiate with other countries we will be doing it from a position of strength. that is something i think the president feels very strongly about and will want to send that message to the rest of the world that we are united in that effort. >> yeah. have you been watching what is going on here in southern california, senator? >> i think the entire country has been watching what is happening to our neighbors in california. we see what is going on, and once again, this is a case of where as a nation we have to be able to respond that people bill are in an emergency situation. that means you have to have from the top on down a coordinated

effort. >> yeah, indeed. senator mike rounds. senator, it is great to have you on peered we look forward to finding the information, what comes out of the meeting with the president-elect. thank you sir. now we go back to the devastation. we talked about the topanga ranch hotel, we talked about the real in burning to the ground. it is fascinating because as we talk and as we take breaks, the wind stops and picks up again and when it picks up it is very strong. they cannot put assets in the air. they cannot fight this from the air. they can only fight it from the ground. thousands of homes have been destroyed, and we will continue covering this on fox news at night tonight. we will have every angle. i'm trace gallagher in balla boo continuing coverage news. ♪ ♪ >> dana: hello, everyone. dana perino along with kennedy