>> carley: if you are just joi joining us, we continue our coverage of the deadly wildfire in los angeles. thousands of firefighters are battling at least five active wildfires racing across the county. >> todd: pacific palisades fire most destructive wildfire in l.a. history burning over 17,000 acres. the entire island of manhattan is 14,600 acres, picture that. eaton fire torching 10,000 acres. these fires are zero percent contained. >> carley: this is palisades charter high school, a popular location for hollywood productions. >> todd: this hair salon ripped apart in the last 24 hours.

you are watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. karen bass will hold a press conference 11:00 a.m. eastern t time. >> gone. el patron, gone. everything in this neighborhood is not existing right now. we've been here since 8:00 a.m. fighting ourselves, no one is safe. >> todd: robert ray is live in pacific palisades with the latest. robert. >> good morning to you from a dangerous smoke-filled neighborhood in pacific palisades and home behind me unfortunately in flames. an inferno, most of it burned. the outside walls still standing, they will fall eventually. pacific coast highway, a few blocks down the hills and malibu to the north and so much of

malibu is gone. those beautiful homes and the heir looms and histories of family and friends have all had are gone. this fire has burned 17,000 acres enjoying over 1000 structures and that number could go up. five fatalities, as we know. five fires burning, zero percent containment. here is the pacific palisades fire. look at this video from yesterday evening. we landed at lax and got word of a new fire called sunset fire. made our way there and followed the first responders into the hills as they tried to extinguish what they could. meanwhile, palm trees burning at the very top and people being

evacuated, tossing their animals into backs of vehicles, trying to make their way out of the region, tough scenario. people taking garden hoses and spraying down apartments and homes and vegetation to get moisture on there in case embers were struck. here is the deal, if there is any good news, last night they were able to pull helicopters back up and drop you water. they have not been able to do that here in pacific palisades because wind gusts were hurricane force up to 100 mile per hour. we do not expect to see those kind of winds today or tomorrow, although we could see 30 to 40 miles per hour and that is the not good for situations like this. a home gets burned up and a wind comes in and it goes to another

block, another home. that is difficulty first responders and fireiters are having. 12,000 personnel are on the ground trying to fight the fires. we expect more on their way as fema is looking at sending utilities in and aid and shelters for people displaced. many people are in critical condition in the hospital with burns. animals have perished. we know at least five people have lost their lives and the fire are nowhere near ending, zero percent contained in pacific palisades. the light will come up in three or four hours and we'll get a better asse assessment of the a. >> todd: so much in the way of resources, zero percent

containment in the palisades. thank you. let's go to brooke singman with more on political fallout from the fire. >> brooke: president trump is calling out governor newsom and president biden over the government response to these historic wildfires, saying, the fires in los angeles may go down as the worst in the history of our country. they are doubting whether insurance companies will have enough money to pay for this catastrophe, this is gross ink incompetence and mismanagement of the biden and newsom administration. >> one can't respond to it. people are fleeing, people have lost lives, kids have lost schools, families torn asunder, churches burned down and this guy wants to politicize it.

i have a lot of thoughts and i know what i want to say. i stood next to the president of the united states today, i was proud to be with president biden. >> brooke: trump said he will take care of californians. listen. >> we'll take care of the whole state. what happened is a tragedy and the governor has not done a good job. i got along well with him and we would work together, looks like we'll have to rebuild it. what happened there, i don't think is anything that i've ever seen quite like it. insurance companies will have a big problem. you're talking about big, big dollars. >> brooke: president biden after meeting with state and local officials has cancelled his trip to italy to focus on the response. >> todd: brooke singman, thank you.

strategic advisor to faith in media coalition, kim douglas, joins us now. brentwood is dangerously close to where the fires are burning right now. describe what it is like where you are. >> i am very, very close. i live here in brentwood, i'm coming to you with electricity and power because most of my neighbor and friends have lost power and electricity. palisades is my backyard, i'm there daily. if is devastating. i talk to friends all day long, they could not even pick up a glass to run out the door, they had no time. they had to flee their homes and watched it burn to the ground. we are the city of angels and we are in armegedon. >> carley: tell us what you're

feeling about this fire, what you have seen and your reaction from the response of local officials and governor gavin newsom, as well. >> yeah, the response is not very good, i'll be interested to hear when our mayor, karen bass, who just came back from guana, will do a news conference at 11:00 this morning. i will tell you, this city, which is very blue, are really all of my neighbors and friends are reassessing who we voted in and they vote the in. it is absolutely horrendous what is going on. there is a lot of anger and so much upset right now. feeling around town is people drive by and can't believe how things are down to the ground. it looks like a war zone in palisades and palisades is where everyone goes to have coffee with their dogs after they drop off kids. the women go and we do pilates

classes or a gym. it is places where you walk, where you get ice cream with kids after school. it is a neighborhood, family-oriented seaside town. everything is destroyed and gone from the bottom to the top, just absolutely gone. people are in shock. for a town that doesn't put big priority on faith tore churches or mosques or sin g synagogues, everybody is turning to faith, family and friends because it is all we've got. >> todd: a lithe ral come to jesus moment. i left l.a. in 2008. this is catastrophic. there were minor earthquakes and fires and wind problems, yet response seemed to be okay. what changed in the int

intervening years? why has the response been so lacking? >> i have worked on rick carruso's campaign to be mayor and worked on the recall for george george gascon and now our new gregg day da nathan hockman. it is what they put their money and effort into and what they haven't, what they put priorities on and it is taxpayers and people like myself and my neighbors that give back to the community, we're a part of the community. we love being here and sporting all races, creed, sexuality, we want to isbe a community. when they take things away, our police department and fire get cut, the water supply, it is

ridiculous. that is what happened since you left, todd, i wish i had left when you did. >> carley: thanks for joining us, we are glad to have you on, wish it was under different circumstances. >> todd: continuing breaking news coverage of wildfires all morning long. officials warn the worst is yet to come. >> carley: important meeting tonight between trump and republican senators, hes he could split his agenda into two different bills. claudia claudia tenney is here on the talks between republicans. claudia tenney is hn the talks between republicans. c the talks between republicans. c the talks between republicans. c the talks between republicans. c talks between republicans. claud talks between republicans. laudi talks between republicans. ichi, ni, san, shi... (1,2,3,4 . . ) ruri never thought she would live out her dream. then one day, she did.

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considerably, we will still deal with 30, 40, to 60 mile per hour winds today. i think they will be able to get some planes in the air and do some defending of the fires that are burning out of control. z zero percent containment for the palisades fire. yesterday the eaton fire was barely there and now 10,000 acres. wind alerts continue. wind gusts 50 mile per hour today. here is wind gust model going through time. 40 to 50 mile per hour winds in the afternoon hours and overnight to friday and friday afternoon things calm down considerably and hopefully this weekend, they'll get a grasp on things.

fire outlook elevated in the shaded area ongoing through friday. no rain in the forecast. temperatures are not an issue. it is the dry, the brush and the winds. fire weather alert through friday and that smoke will continue to be a huge issue for this area. spreading into other areas that don't have fires burning, air quality alert for many in southern california and that will move toward the southwest, some of the smoke. respiratory issues are a big deal. all the firefighters, it is smoke, burning tires, things in the atmosphere is a big deal. >> carley: unintended and major consequence of the fire, the respiratory issues. and president trump returning to capitol hill as he says he is

open to two bills to get his agenda through. >> todd: lucas tomlinson has the latest. >> lucas: president-elect trump is back in washington less than two weeks before his inauguration. welet attend jimmy carter service today. he met with republican senators about the pending legislation. >> we had a great meeting, there is great unity. one bill or two bills, it will get done. there is a lot of talk about two and one. end result is the same. we'll get something done, reducing taxes and creating a lot of jobs and the other things you know about. this was a unified meeting. >> lucas: some advocating for a smaller bill focus on border, illegal immigration, tax reform

could take a year. >> carley: lucas tomlinson, thank you. bring in new york congresswoman claudia tenney. look ahead come january when donald trump is in office now includes a federal response to this fire. what will that look like? >> this is a tragedy, it is horrific to watch this unfold. it is result of bad politics and bad policy on part 've democrats. they have not properly maintained forests, energy or water supply. pacific ocean is there, they have not taken advantage they could be doing more and should have prevented this. we have a similar thing in adirondacks. we are seeing weak response from fema right now. with new policy in place, with republicans and change, maybe people in california will wake up and elect people that will

make them safe, which is obligation of government. it is hard to watch this. it is shall it. this could happen any one of these really blue far left progressive states where they refuse to use common sense and science to protect people they are supposed to protect. >> carley: president biden gave remarks yesterday with upon gavin newsom and one point delivered good news, listen to this. >> good news is i'm a great grandfather -- [applause] baby boy. >> carley: i mean, what do you think about that, was that appropriate time to deliver that comment? >> january 20 cannot come soon enough. we need a real president in place who is going to take charge. president trump is already

acting as de facto president meeting with key leaders in both the house and senate, meeting with world leaders, getting his cabinet up andun aring. it is critical we implement policies president trump put in place. we have to deal with, right away, amp up economy, taxes, border, streamlining government, those things have to be done. you heard talk of one bill or two, we need to have a huddle with senate, republicans and senate house members to talk about how to get that through with president trump. president trump is doing that, we are going down in different stages to mar-a-lago to meet with the president to hash this out and make sure we deliver. we have got to and we've got to electifiy the economy and have r rapid growth through policy and

protect our abortion which is critically important to enabling growth we need. it is going to be arduous, exciting 100 days. so excited to have entrepreneur in president trump and a sane, strong leader in mike johnson to work with senator thune to make sure we get our priorities. biggest concern is senate parliament airian will not let us do what we need to do. make sure congressional buj office scores done by partisan democrats will let us do work to serve the american people. there is a lot we are hashing out with jason smith and with republicans everyday, we have meetings everyday to make sure we do the job. >> carley: it is a big day for legislation, laken riley act is up in senate and has to break 60

vote filibuster. do you think it will pass? >> well, looks like we have senate democrats finally coming around. we got rid of chuck schumer as minority leader who is holding up legislation. reintroduce laken riley should have passed last term. now democrats are waking up, 48 democrats voted for it in the house that wouldn't vote for it before. i am hopeful it gets passed. there is red lithuania act that will stop green light law in new york that issues drivers licenses to illegal immigrants and prevents federal law enforcement from working with local police to make sure we keep dangerous criminals out of our states and new york is one of the worst. we had almost 100 people on the terrorist watch list list loot. they get drivers licenses. how do they prove they are

eligible? they are driving on the streets and able to travel across state lines, they are danger to our community. this is common sense, we need to stop these things. >> carley: donald trumps republican party is party of common sense. something to follow just introduced by you. claudia tenney, thank you for joining us this morning. pacific palisades fire is most destructive in history of los angeles even though it is still zero percent contained. >> todd: next guest is helping coordinate the emergency response and will tell us what is happening on the ground. a single touch can say a thousand words. it says... i see you. i feel you. i got you. and i'm never letting go. (♪) ever. (♪)

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>> todd: deadly wires tearing through los angeles county right now, the worst of them are zero percent contained. ca >> carley: >> william: >> william: joins us now. >> william: we have almost

double the number of firefighters we had before. those things are making a difference. not out of the woods yet but with winds closer to 75, that will help. we are in the hardest hit areas, pacific palisades. this is walking street, boutique, juice bar, ups, antique store, it is all destroyed. fire gutted the city. 1000 businesses and homes destroyed. biggest issue is water or lack of it. firefighters ran out of water after the tanks ran dry. >> because we were pushing so much water in our trump line and so much water being used, we were not able to fill the tanks fast enough, it was faster than we can provide water.

>> william: dwp said don't bother -- you have to boil your water, that is difficult, people don't have power or cell or in internet service. elon musk says he will bring starlink to the affected area, that will help. the fire in pasadena, five fatalities there and hersh fire is 13 -- the most destructive fire in california history, camp fire 2018, 18 billion, don't be surprised if this fire exceeds that. back to you. >> carley: looking that way. >> todd: it will blow it away, that is horrible. california wildfire rage across los angeles, organizations are rushing in with aid. direct relief have been on the

ground. emergency response manager joins us. what is the greatest need right now? >> good morning, thanks for having me on. the greatest need for those impacted are emergency medical equipment, so they need ppe, personal protective equipment and all things you wouldn't think about in a fire. essential medications and daily medications. people are leaving their home and cut off to their daily supply of medication, diabetes medication, oncology medication. if you don't have access to them, they can become life-threatening. >> todd: if you have to flee, you may have grabbed documents and forgotten your medications. what injuries are people seeing rhythm now? >> absolutely, doctors are

treating burn victims. what we're seeing are people who are coming from vulnerable populations, people leaving nursing homes, hospitals and clinics and have pre-existing conditions. there are instances of smoke in inha inhalation. we were on the ground yesterday in los angeles. our headquarters is 80 miles north so we drove down the trucks yesterday with our emergency response teams to bring masks, hygiene kits, shampoo, soap, toothbrushes and reentry kits. people are going back into their homes. it is something where people need, basic items that are critical. >> todd: we've been focused on the property damage, showing horrific pictures of

destruction. how much worse, somebody in the medical profession, how much do you fear injury and potentially the death toll could become throughout all of the fires? >> absolutely. the fires are zero percent contained at this point. with wind picking up and being unpredictable, we don't know how the fires could spread and the situation could become worse. the medical situation is dire. what we are focused on at direct relief is providing basic essentials, ppe, masks, gloves, coveralls, boots, goggles, things for people that need to go back to their homes at some point and essentials for hygiene and emergency medical backpack to first responders on the

ground, needed to treat people in the field in difficult conditions. the medical situation is unfortunately probably going to get worse. a lot of what we're seeing are related to vulnerable populations and existing medical conditions. >> todd: thank you for what you are doing and thank you for your time. dozens of homes and businesses destroyed by wildfire, now california could be on the virge of insurance crisis. >> carley: cheryl casone will break it down coming up next. liberty mutual customized my car insurance so i saved hundreds. with the money i saved i thought i'd get a wax figure of myself. cool right? look at this craftmanship. i mean they even got my nostrils right. it's just nice to know that years after i'm gone this guy will be standing the test of ti... he's melting! oh jeez... nooo... oh gaa...

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about state farm, largest insurance company in california. they have cancelled hundreds of policies this past summer in pacific palisades specifically according to newsweek and justified it to avoid financial failure. they cite frequency and severity of wildfires in the golden state. there is a lengthy opinion piece in bloomberg today on the website talking about california, the fires expose potential nationwide trillion dollar hole in u.s. home insurance. places like california, floridaed, more so in floridaed because of hurricanes. people are not renewing policies or don't have the proper insurance. they can't get fire insurance or choose not to. this leads to rates going up and states being on the hook, maybe

federal government being on the hook. senate budget committee last month published a report called next to fall. climate driven insurance crisis is here and getting worse and they talk about states in this country that are most at risk. florida, louisiana, california, texas. states that are experiencing highest number of nonlenewal rates. ul have less people ensure homes, rates for those paying for home insurance go up. that is trillion dollar problem. want to go back to pacific palisades for a second. zip code 90272, there were 9000 nonrenewals in that zip code pacific palisades. according to san francisco chronicle, that is 28 out of 100 policies that were not renewed.

you have potential of 6 billion in losses just in pacific palisades right now. and this is where the california insurance commissioner he spoke to local los angeles afilliate and he is telling people, don't sign anything. if you lost your home and an adjuster shows up today, don't sign anything. there is a three-day cooling off period, be careful. insurance companies, we'll give you 70% of what your house is worth, legally you are supposed to get 100%. >> todd: what you are saying, insurers will reallocate risk amongst all of us, not just homeowners in california, so everyone's insurance rates will go up to reallocate events like this. >> cheryl: state by state basis, yes, biggest problem is florida

because of hurricanes. there are people trying to buy homes in florida and can't get insurance. what you have in florida, i'm afraid and worry about california, what you see is these not so high brow insurance companies, risky insurers start to sell people policies and then go bankrupt, that is what we've seen in florida. this is devastating, we have friends that have lost everything in these fires. one of my good friends has lost everything. they'll will rebuild, be careful. >> carley: one devastation on top of another. when it comes to insurance, something people are grappling with for days, weeks, months and years to come. don't miss sheril on mornings with maria. switching gears, president-elect trump is putting the world on notice on a quests to buy

greenland. >> we need greenland for national security purposes. you have approximately 45,000 people there. people really don't know if denmark has a legal right to it. if they do, they should give it up, we need it for national security. outside you have china ships all over the place, russian ships all over the place. we're not letting that happen. >> carley: sources closest to trump telling "new york post" his desire to acquire the territory is to send a strong message to china. a "new york post" column niflt has a great piece out and joins me. good morning to you. why does donald trump want to acquire this ice-covered territory of greenland? >> it really is a national security imperative. that is because it is in the

arctic which gives us access to cobalt and lithium and rare earth elements we need to make military ships and fighter jelts and missiles. we need those rare earth elements to ourselves because united states does not naturally have its own, enough of its own reserves. >> carley: you don't seem to think it is crazy of an idea as donald trump's critics are making it out to be. >> no, i don't, it has been interesting to watch this and understanding i see in liberal media. i see a lot of thinking how crazy it is, to be honest, when i first heard it, it was out of left field. when you look at history of us and greenland, we've been trying to acquire greenland since the 1860s because of rare earth

elements that are so important. also with global warming, there has been open access to the region, there is a lot of -- more places to access to get through. we've been in this really cri critical, quiet competition with russia and china for these elements for a number of years. >> carley: which makes this so important, as you detail in your piece. this is not well received by denmark. prime minister says the territory is not for sale. what do you think is going to happen? >> donald trump said he would not rule out military force to take over greenland. i don't think we will see a forceful military takeover of greenland. what i think more likely would be an arrangement with denmark. parliament members in denmark have said in recent days,

miething open to a free association agreement, the us would give money and rights to greenland citizens in exchange for access to the legion. still it is up in the air and donald trump has not ruled out military force. he wants to send a strong message, my sources say that is to china to say america is ambitious tul ambitious again. happening >> carley: great point, if this acquisition acquiring greenland doesn't happen, you can think that president-elect putting it out sends a strong message to china and russia, we're on to you and thinking outside the box. thank you for joining us. check out the piece in new"new k po post". let's go to lawrence jones.

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pal said, all that acreage burning and zero containment, where is the resources. zero containment. why? lack of resources, lack of water. lack of reserves. >> todd: mayor karen bass is expected to address the public at 11 o'clock a.m. eastern as residents like leo demand answers. >> carley: meantime get to this the manhattan district attorney's office has until 10:00 a.m. eastern time president trump filed emergency petition asking the supreme court to block the sentencing in his new york -- argues the sentencing should be over claims of presidential immunity. >> todd: federal prosecutor katie cherkasky joins us now when carley talks about the supreme court, this is the u.s. supreme court. this is as high as you can go. how should the court go. >> the supreme court should absolutely stay the sentencing and there is a very good reason

for that in terms of the timing, this is really a crisis of judge merchan's own making. a manufactured crisis in terms of the timing. he has known all along that the snowrtd's immunity decision came down in july explicitly use of presidential immunity or acts that are entitles the defendant to immediately appeal that order because, if you are immune from prosecution or if there is evidence immune from having used against you. needs to be reviewed immediately before any further stepping can be taken. especially including sentencing. for that reason i think the court should pause the sentencing to review whether this case is irreparably harmed and needs to be reversed. >> carley: if the sentencing does happen, i'm sure many people are wondering this, what do you think it could possibly be? >> well, according to what we already saw from judge merchan, prompting what may happen here, the sentence itself is going to be essentially symbolic. it's going to be negligible.

not any sort of jail time. but the big point of this is that before trump can officially be considered a felon, a convict, they need to finalize this cases and enter a sentence. even if it's just a minimal sentence. and practically speaking, they can't have anything against him that would follow him into office because they can't have any sort of conditions of release on him or control over him while he is in the white house. it's the fact of entering a sentence to finalize this case that they are so desperate to do which needs to be solved. ed toed to the procedural back and forth on this has been dizzying. so much so that lawyers can't even follow it. if you are trying to figure this out at home, don't worry about it. you alluded to the evidence. i want to focus on that. to me, that's where the fruit is fruit, the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine. if the jury used testimony from a hope hicks that occurred during a conversation, while trump was president, in the oval office, and the supreme court said conversations like that are immune, doesn't the entire conviction need to be overturned because of this fruit of the

poisonous tree doctrine? >> i can tell that you are a lawyer and that's actually exactly the point here. the big question is does any use of this evidence entitle the case to be completely overturned and i think that the answer is yes. but, even if the answer is we don't know yet, the issue still needs to be reviewed before anything else can proceed here but, yes, essentially i think it's structural error in the case and would require reversal of the conviction all together. >> carley: attorney general merrick garland is intending to release the first volume of special counsel jack smith's report on trump's federal election case. what is going to happen there. >> it's a desperate attempt. perversion. this case was dropped. he has absolutely no legal basis to proceed with this in my opinion. obviously ongoing litigation to stop that from happening. totally inappropriate. >> todd: let's be clear this is the election case not the documents case which judge cannon said huh-uh you can't release. this i think it's important what you said yes we have you here for your legal analysis. but you don't need to be a

lawyer to analyze what merrick garland just did. this is p.r., 100 percent of the way. there is no legal basis. there is no legal rationale for what he did. >> absolutely not. they had their chance to get the conviction. they had indictment. superseding indictment. they were not able to convince the american people. now they want to throw this out there to suggest some sort of criminality before proving anything in a court of law. it's offensive to the constitution. >> carley: and i am most certainly sandwiched between two lawyers. a thorn between two litigators. >> todd: carley you don't need to be a lawyer because it is either common sense or not law. >> carley: something no lawyer has ever seen before. katie, have to leave it there. thank you for joining us on this topic and "fox & friends" will have continuing coverage of the california wildfires. >> todd: don't forget to set your dvr 5:00 a.m. eastern so you don't miss a minute of "fox & friends first." "fox & friends" takes it from here. ♪