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. ♪

[crackling] >> topanga beach drive firefighters are trying to put out this home absolutely gone up in massive flames right now. >> that's your entire life. you don't get that back. the memories are gone. >> it is like driving through hell itself down here. literally through hell. >> that's not going to do anything. i don't want you to get burned, man. >> you good? >> this is the recipe for disaster here. we are into a moment of history here. we can feel it, right? this has never happened before in some of these areas. record hot summer. near record dry fall. strongest wind event in at least 14 years. and affecting an incredible amount of population. >> you going to be okay? you are going to be okay.

>> oh, [bleep]. [explosion] [fire crackling] [winds] >> . [sobbing i grew up on this block. i saw the other altadena fires and it was nothing like this. nothing like this. >> it looked like pandemonium and trying to get down lake street there was a four mile backup. i'm surprised all of us got out of there to tell the truth. >> we did take all of our family pictures and a few valuable painting out last night so all

the stuff replace cybil. people are not. the family is the most important thing. >> if you were to describe what we are seeing here tonight is just apocalyptic. >> in these mountains is with where the pal said fire is burning. pacific pal said. we are talking about 11,000 plus acres that are burned right now. >> i don't know if is he okay or not. >> steve: oh, man. you just heard it and saw it. scenes of heart-breaking loss and resilience playing out across l.a. as the city endures the most destructive firestorm in modern history. >> here is what we know right now. five active wildfires continue to spread in different parts of l.a. county. the latest flaring up in the hollywood hills area, threatening iconic land marks. at least five people are dead and more than 100,000 are under evacuation orders.

>> brian: so the pacific palisades fire burning over 17,000 acres and the eat ton eaten fireis over 10,000 acres . both at zero percent containment. just like yesterday. and firefighters are reportedly being forced to choose which homes to save. >> steve: they call that triaging, a lot of people lost their houses including celebrities like paris hilton who says she is heart broken beyond words after watching her malibu home go up in flames on live tv. yesterday we brought you three hours of live coverage as a long row of ocean front properties along the pacific coast highway burned to the ground in malibu. >> go down to william la jeunesse latest on the ground in the pacifics palisades, california. hey, william. last night seven fires.

brentwood, two in studio city. with the winds down. the helicopters up and almost double the number of firefighters. it's making a difference. today we expect winds closer to 25 not 75. but, we are not out of the woods yet. and i am in the pacific palisades. this, of course, is the worst hit. a lot of celebrities here, you know, speilberg, hanks, witherspoon. antioch. all up and down here daylight you will be able to see it's all destroyed. all of these. about a thousand homes and businesses in the palisades all destroyed. now, here's one of the issues that we're of main concern here. of course, it is water. you have heard a little bit about it, right? lack of it. because firefighters ran out of water, now dwp has three reserves or tanks about 1 million gallons each. over the fire in the first 24 hours, first 12 hours, actually, they ran out of water.

>> because we were pushing so much water in trunk line and so much water was being used before it can get to the tanks, we were not able to fill the tanks fast enough. the consumption of water was faster than we can provide water. >> water remains available in the palisades through hydrants but also through water tankers that have been deployed. claims that the tanks weren't full are false. >> you could hear there the dwp says actually they were correcting mayor bass. now, hours ago dwb also said however don't use your tap water it has to be boiled, right? that's going to be difficult because people here don't have electricity. they cut off the gas so your generator is not going to work. also, they don't have cell service or internet, although today elon musk promised to bring star link to the affected areas. that is going to help a great

deal. other major fires you guys mentioned, the one near pass deanna, eat ton fire. five fates hurst fire is now 13% contained we are told. now all three are under investigation. 130,000 people do remain under evacuation orders. as for this fire. we're looking at potentially over $50 billion and that would rank as the most expensive fire in u.s. history. back to you. >> brian: william, quick question they keep saying zero percent contained, you are standing at a place, you were there yesterday and that's out. can you say that that area is contained? >> people think because if it is zero percent contained. it means a line around the fire at least 6 feet wide.

so until you get firefighters you bulldozer or hand crews to put the line around the fire it's not contained, technically a fire out and zero percent contained as weird as that may sound. >> it's a terminology they have used for years and doesn't make any sense to the public. the one thing i wanted to add, you guys, because you like it chew on this kind of stuff and i like it, too. do you think we have affordability problem in los angeles right now. wait until you have 4,000 people looking for rentals or new homes. they are going to go through a permit process of five years. the material cost, labor cost, trying to get a contractor. that's the next nightmare as well as the insurance problem which i know you have already talked about. back to you. >> ainsley: do you know anything, william, about the five people who died? >> personally i do not. sorry. i will check into that though. >> lawrence: william, i'm curious, what has been the response from the people on the ground. i have been seeing on social media the frustration of the

citizens rightfully with their leaders. i'm just curious on the ground what's the mood from the residents? >> well, you know. there -- okay. whenever you hear about a santa ana winds. people get really cared. right and that's across the board. malibu and the palisades any of these areas around the cannon the interface that's going to be a problem did nap 2018. and that's when we -- you know the woolsey fire and we lost a thousand structures if there. people are frustrated. there is no question about that in terms of the pawns nothing being what it could be. i also think they are kind inert to the idea that it's always

getting worse. we normally have one red flag warning every three to five years. we have had three red flag warnings in the last three months. it's a difficult situation. >> steve: it's the wind and it's because it's so dry you haven't had any rain out there. the national guard has been deployed. that's good news. that's going to be hopeful. because the fire department has been triaging, you know, yesterday, in particular, they were -- they had to drive by houses on fire to go save somebody else's. >> william, i know that three people were arrested who were looting in some of the evacuation zones. in santa monica out there right now there is a curfew from sundown to sun up in the evacuation areas. that's the worry. not the houses on fire. okay you got to leave your house. suddenly a guy goes in your back door and steals your stuff. >> yeah. it's really hard to enforce the curfew. i mean, we in the media are able to get through.

nobody else can. but there is a lot of people who haven't left. and some are on bicycles and motorbikes and things like that. they get through. we saw some tonight beginning to go through some of this stuff. there were more teenagers but they had motorbikes and the cops, you know, they are stretched thin, right? in terms of the triage, steve, just a little bit on that. you know, when firefighters, i have been through some fires before, and if a house doesn't look like it's saveable. i'm not going. the laguna fire i saw a house and don't even bother. don't waste your time on that house because they didn't take the time to treat it properly. i might be able to save this guy. i can't save that one. so, it can be tricky. >> brian: william, we're going to get into this just anecdotally. you live around there i was talking to a lot of people because i used to live around there they were saying that when the fire trucks pulled up to the house and it was hours old, there was no water in the hydrant. so, there is something wrong

with it was full and we just used it all because unprecedented fire. you shouldn't be running out of water in the first hours of a fire in the number two market in the country in one of the richest per capita areas in the world. >> yeah. well, you know, in terms of how fast -- you are right. because the first one went at 3, next one at 8 and the next one at 3:00 a.m. i might have those numbers slightly wrong. the point is you are right. when the first tank went down, you have got a problem in terms of whether -- the investigation will be done, right? why could not they pump? the question of the day there was water available they couldn't get it in the tank fast enough. the question is why? >> steve: because. >> hopefully the investigations will tell us. >> brian: what else working on besides wildfires. >> ainsley: karen bass says that's not true the tanks were full she was corrected no ran out. williams acknowledging that as

well. but then she was asked by sky news. duo your citizens an apology? >> lawrence: no response. >> ainsley: she said nothing. no response. >> steve: this is germane, three $1 million tanks that provide the gravity to push the water into the hydrants. and, when they were emptied then they couldn't get water to the hydrants. there was still water in l.a. but just not through the hydrant. >> ainsley: thank you so much, william, we will check back in with you a lot this morning you are doing incredible job. >> brian: janice dean is tracking the wind and air quality problems. janice? >> janice: air quality is definitely going to be an issue. some of the worst air quality that they are experiencing right now in southern california. here the wind gusts so 30 miles per hour in saddle peak. good news is mainly calm but we still have the potential for 30, 50 mile-per-hour gusts throughout the day today. and we have upped those acreage totals to over 17,000. remember yesterday, was not even

3,000. so double, triple that and then we also have five fires that are burning. a lot of them not contained that was an excellent description of containment from william earlier on today. but look at the eaton fire. not even there yesterday. and now 10,000 acres burning without a lot of containment. are we going to get firefighters out there today? yes. and we are going to get planes and helicopters in the air. we still have wind alerts wind gusts in excess 50, 60 miles per hour. but sporadic and not as long lasting as we saw yesterday. there is the forecast as we go through time. so we will have breaks where we don't have a lot of winds at all. but then friday, definitely, better conditions; however, no rain in the forecast at all. and the dry conditions continue. the winds will be fine. but we are still going to be dealing with the potential for an outlook of fire danger. not only today but friday, certainly an elevated fire danger. and looking ahead to the forecast, no rain. there is just no rain.

and there hasn't been a lot of rain in this area and that's what they really need. over to you. >> steve: in fact, janice, i read this fire season they have only gotten .16 inches. normally 4 or 5 inches. less than a tenth of an inch or just a less than 20th of an inch. >> janice: the smoke is a huge deal. not just lumber that's like all sorts of particulates in the air that is going to cause respiratory issues not only residents but firefighters working tirelessly 24, 48 hour shifts without a break. >> brian: lapse year record rainfall. >> janice: yes, you have all that vegetation all dried out. that's another point. yes, we have had some rain in the past couple of years, new vegetation, then drying out and that's fuel for all this fire. it's a perfect disaster. >> steve: it's awful. >> ainsley: thank you, janice. i was watching interviews with high school students out there

and they said all of our hangouts are gone. we are watching videos of our football field on instagram up in flames. and that brings us to this. this is palisades high school. look at it before on the left-hand side of your screen. look at it now on the right. it's gone. >> lawrence: that's incredible. >> steve: not the only one. >> lawrence: palisades bank before and after is stunning. >> brian: can we stop here for a second? i can't believe that bank couldn't be saved. i watched that bank begin to burn no give up on it. then it was isolated. >> steve: we were discussing. >> steve: on the far right part of the screen you can see that the bank is on fire. and right next to it is an atm. you got to wonder if anybody went to the atm from the bank and took out the hundreds of thousands of dollars or anything like that. also, how many people -- we know that a lot of people's homes were destroyed. but how many people had stuff in the safety deposit boxes from generations of their family all

gone. >> >> ainsley: interesting look at the picture people sitting on the bench before when it was normal and look on the right. it's a ghost town. >> brian: i believe that's the same building used to be a gym overlooking the ocean. i used to work out there. and it's amazing but to me, there was just no fire truck. i watched that thing in real time i'm thinking to myself that could be saved. they didn't even try. i'm not saying firefighters didn't try. maybe they didn't have the resources or no one in command to say we could save that because of the money also, steve, isn't there fireproofing? we're going find out fireproofing on the safety deposit box will be effective. >> steve: here's the thing, brian, in a lot of those places they have got sprinklers that's usually the code you got to have a sprinkler in there but, for the most part, it was so overwhelmed and if they ran out of water, if the water was cut it didn't work. >> lawrence: my high school years i was a fire explorer.

most of the time big fires like that. they are trying to stop the spread. so if a house or a business is somewhere in the middle, then they kind of have to let it go to prevent it from -- it's impossible situation that they're dealing with right now. >> brian: especially when you cut money to the budget. >> ainsley: the winds were so strong yesterday, the firefighters were having a hard time. and in some instances, you were watching as trucks were choosing -- they were passing one home to go and save another. firefighters were heard on the emergency radios requesting additional support and crews. >> steve: that's what william was talking about. you know, when the fire truck pulls up, if they see that house and they go it's too far gone. maybe save that one over there. and also you got to figure they are looking at okay, that's a wooden house. it's on fire. the house right over there is a bring house or a cbs house, more likely we can save that so explains why they are shopping around to try to figure out. >> lawrence: a lot of real time calculations going on for

firemen. president-elect trump calling out california's governor gavin newsom over the state's response to the fires. and its long term planning. >> ainsley: nate foy is in west palm beach. good morning to you, nate. >> nate: hey, ainsley, hey, guys, good morning. president-elect donald trump blames california governor gavin newsom for poor water management decisions and he says that has led to a lack of an ability to fight these devastating fires. he blames newsom for, in his words, failing to sign a water restoration declaration that would have put california in a better position than it's in right now. >> i have been trying to get gavin newsom to allow water to come. you would have tremendous water out there if they sent it out to the pacific, because they are trying to protect a tiny little fish. for the sake of a smelt, they have no water. they have no wire in the fire hydrants today in los angeles. this is a true tragedy and a mistake of the governor and you can say administration. >> nate: so trump is referring to a 2020 memorandum he signed

meant to bring more water to los angeles and other parts of the state. but california said it wasn't scientifically justified and sued to block it for concerns about endangered species. according to nism's office, quote: there is no such document as the water restoration declaration that is pure fiction. trump kept applying pressure calling on newsom to resign writing on truth social, quote: one of the best and most beautiful parts of the united states of america is burning down to the ground. its ashes and gavin newsom new-scum should resign. this is all his fault. here is newsom last night. >> one can't even respond to it. i mean, it's -- people are literally fleeing, people have lost their lives. kids lost their schools. families completely torn asunder. churches burned down. this guy wanted to politicize it. >> what is the situation with the water, obviously, in palisades ran out last night in the hydrants. >> look, the local folks are

trying to figure that out. when you have a system but's it's not dissimilar large scale fires. whether it be pipe or electricity or just be the complete overwhelm of the system. >> president-elect trump will head back to palm beach tonight after attending former president jimmy carter's funeral in washington, d.c. he will meet with republican governors at mar-a-lago tonight after meeting with senate republicans yesterday in a meeting that he said went well. we will send it back to you. >> brian: we'll talk a little bit more about that. thanks, nate. just to get to the bottom. i want to get to the bottom of the water project reversed in 2019 by governor newsom. where the president trump won. trump's first term had a different idea of what could be happening on the west coast for them to get water and they want to renew their projects 113-year-old aqueduct to refill the area. whatever it is, when they did their dry runs, by the way that

was a total nonanswer from governor newsom. governor desantis would have answered that. even if the answer is not good. he obscured it as if he is in some 12th grade debate. >> ainsley: locals. he is the governor. >> lawrence: burning in your state. if it's up to the locals you got karen bass who wasn't even there she was givens in the 48 hours before this was going to happen. she could have delayed the trip. >> brian: to guana. >> lawrence: there is no interest for l.a. going to that inauguration. >> ainsley: she cut the gujt of the fire department. >> brian: to the tune of 17 million. >> steve: going to africa. if you your town is going to have a state of emergency, don't go. brian, going back to the water for a minute because it's all about the water. the amount of water pumped from the sacramento-san joaquin-delta was limited under federal and state regulations to protect a fish called the smelt. which has been declared functionally extinct according

to "the new york post." so, here's the thing. here what happens they should have done because there were limitations, governor newsom, should have, in anticipation of everybody knew there were going to be 100 mile-per-hour winds. he should have signed a declaration to simply pump more water into the l.a. area. he could have done that there are rules on the books. it has to do with environment and stuff like that. he could have taken the extraordinary measure to say okay. >> lawrence: he didn't. >> steve: right now pump everything we got into l.a. and they did not. >> ainsley: protected that little tiny minnow the delta smelt for decades. we used to do stories like this when i was working on sean hannity's show when he had that sunday show. so, yeah, we went out there, took the whole show out there to do this. the food banks had people wrapped around them because they couldn't grow the crops. the majority of all the almonds are grown there shut down the water supply, limit the water supply save this little tiny minnow. meanwhile people going without food and people are dying and

their houses are being burned. >> brian: play a little bit later of donald trump talking about this as late as last summer about california. who doesn't love california? it's fantastic. he has a golf club out there. he knows it. in fact, you want to hear. here is donald trump. >> ainsley: warning them. >> brian: concerned about this for years. watch. >> got to take care of the floors. the floors of the forest. very important. you look at other countries where they do it differently. and it's a whole different story. i was with the president of finland and he said we have much different -- we're a forest nation. he called it a forest nation. and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning. >> the head of austria tells me we have trees that are much more flammable than what have you in california we never have forest fires because they maintain their forests. and you have all that water that could be used to as what they call water flow. where the water -- you know, where the land would be damp.

and you would stop many of these horrible filers. >> they had a couple of horrible forest fires in california and i went i said, you know, you have a lot of trees standing. healthy trees, sir with this intense heat you could see they were charred a little bit on the bottom but they were going to be all right. when they fall it's like lighting a match. >> lawrence: it's incredible. when you look at the left right now and i talked to the president late last night around 10:45, one of his frustrations is they ever all pointing to his truth social posts going after newsom. his frustration is look, there are several issues that i continue to bring up before it hits the fan. and no one listens. they say it's bombast. and then when there is a tragedy and i say i said this before, then they criticize me again. so, it's not just this -- i don't want to get into it but it's the same thing when i said criminals were coming across the border and we need to lock it down oh it's bombast. you are demonize the people.

says the same thing in california. >> steve: you are absolutely right. donald trump called them on this. the problem california, of all the 50 states, halls the most biggest number of environmental restrictions on anything. but you would think that going forward, given what has happened and so many of -- i bet a lot of those environment lists lot their houses. >> i can't thick of anything more damaging to the environment than letting it burn. >> steve: and they did. coverage will continue of the devastating wildfires in southern california. stay with us. ♪ toward mylowes's money. get free gifts to bring home, member deals to get more projects done and free standard shipping. start earning for free with mylowe's rewards today.

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no one cares about your personal thing as president. they care about the thousands of people that had everything lost and the five that are dead. president biden marking the birth of his first great grandchild as he takes no questions, which is an insult to the people, not to the press, to the people. while joining governor newsom at a news conference yesterday as fire rages across los angeles. next guest grew up in los angeles and watched as horror as video show the street he grew up on burned to the ground and six previous houses all destroyed. actor dean cain joins us from nevada. dean, your reaction to these unfolding events? i imagine you got a lot of them. >> yeah. you know, it's stunning to see the devastation and what took place. i call this a perfect storm, brian. it's a perfect storm of mismanagement and failure of leadership. you know, because the santa ana winds aren't new. fires in this part of california is not new. we grew up fighting them and

knew what was going on. what is new is decades of absolute terrible leadership. failure to prepare, insane regulations, bureaucracy. it's crazy and it all came to fruition today. things i have been screaming about for years and what finally actually the taxes, the regulations, these dumb policies, finally forced me to move to nevada. i have so many friends and family that are still there, fortunately everybody is okay. so many of my friends have lost their houses. lost everything. it's absolutely heart breaking. >> brian: 65%, the fire budget is 65% of the homeless budget, which is $1.3 billion. and they cut by 17 million the fire budget again even though they were recommended not to. karen bass wanted a bigger cut and the city legislature said no, it can't be that big. she wanted $23 million cut. and here is this poor excuse for

a mayor who chose guana, despite the threat of these fires. a trip there. once she lands, instead of embracing it, trying to tackle it, listen to a sky news reporter try to get answers from the mayor of los angeles. >> you owe the citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? do you regret cutting the fire department department by millions of dollars, madam mayor? have you nothing to say today? >> brian: dean? >> absolutely stunning. that is an elected official. the mayor of los angeles cannot answer a direct question in the middle of an absolute emergency. it's insane to me. that's the kind of failure of leadership that i'm talking about. it's crazy and, you know, anybody who could lead l.a., like myself kind of has. i see so many people i had to get out of there. i had to get out of there.

this is why. this kind of failure of leadership leads to death and destruction and things just falling apart. that's what took place here. you know, i got to say the firefighters, the first responders unbelievable, heroic, incredible. and the people are such great people and used to fighting these things. you can't do it when all your tools are taken from you. that's what has happened here. absolute mismanagement. i'm so embarrassed to see karen bass do that to a reporter, go quiet like she? second grade. she should resign immediately. >> brian: she is not equipped for the job. she never was equipped for the job. the self-made billionaire crouso who actually worked to save his property and help others has been nailing it left and right. i wish he had won that. is he a democrat. i bish he had won that election. >> me too. >> brian: going to talk a lot because you have had this direct experience and thanks so much for getting up early for us. appreciate it? >> thank you palisades high

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ultimately if either the supreme court or the new york supreme court is going to say to judge merchan, nope, you can't do it, right? >> well, this is last gasp litigation from judge merchan, from alvin bragg. from jack smith. and from merrick garland. and what we're going to see, i think, from the supreme court or the appellate courts in new york is their order to stop this sentencing hearing. because there is nothing that we -- we have to get it right. and if they allow this to go forward, they allow this sentencing to occur, the verdict to be entered, that's irreversible. it's irrev cable harm to donald trump. we should take our time with the law. make sure we are getting it right. novel legal issues that have never been litigated before. before they rush to judgment. before they rush to the sentence, i think the supreme court is going to want to weigh in on this and make sure that that happens. >> the last time we heard from the supreme court about stuff like this. they said, look, a president has

immunity over certain things judge merchan hasn't figured that out yet oh for get that i'm going to do it anyway. >> repeatedly rejected immunity claims despite the supreme court being so clear about it. it's not just that the supreme court was clear about the fact that donald trump has presidential immunity it's that it's immediately appealable if a judge says that it wasn't, in fact, immunized. that's because they have to go through that appellate process before they punish or take further action against the president. >> so that judge merchan that's the business records case here in new york. but the other one that jack smith, the special prosecutor was going to be litigating, you know, they put those all on ice. they have said okay. they pulled the plug on them. but he does have a report. and it sounds like merrick garland may release it if what happened? >> i call this performative prosecution. that's because the cases for jjack smith in florida and d.c.

have gone away. evaporated. trying to put forward something else in this case. jack smith has had his chance and he lost miserably. put before his case in the indictment in all of the motions that he filed. now he wants to have one last slash at donald trump. the presumption of innocence here is, i think, the biggest issue. you know, he had his chance. and now he wants to put in the report what he couldn't prove in court. the only thing that report should say is presumed innocent. nothing else. i don't think -- i think the courts will prevent that from being released. is he a private citizen at this point. according to them the privacy act should even apply to that there are so many reasons that that report should never have been produced and certainly should not be publicized. >> steve: haven't we heard everything already? >> i would think. so jack smith wants to do it in his way, in his voice, and in his indicting manner without donald trump really having an ability or right to respond to

it. that's why this report has no legal basis, no due process to it, and it should definitely be quashed. >> steve: let's see what happens. andrew thank you so much. fox news alert back to the west coast. historic wildfires continue. those are live -- that's an image out of pacific palisades yesterday. local business owner doing his part to try to help some of the victims. ♪

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>> lawrence: back with a fox news alert. deadly wind fueled wildfires sending clouds of thick black smoke oover america's second largest city putting millions at risk. fox weather robert ray is live in pacific palisades where the largest fire is burning out of control as the water supply runs low. robert, what can you tell us? >> >> yeah, hey lawrence. this is about as devastating and catastrophic as a fire can get. you look at this right here, and i just -- maybe we widen out the shot. look at this huge structure that is burning as i speak right now. it's collapsed. all of the steel just mangled as if it was a piece of paper. this is over 17,000 square

footage of this area of pacific palisades that is destroyed. neighborhoods in complete ruin. just down the hill from where we are at right now is the pacific ocean. and the pch. pacific coast highway that leads up to malibu and then to the south, santa monica. malibu in total destruction. people's livelihoods, their memories their family homes gone. this massive structure collapsed by the force of the fire and the winds that came through here. over 1,000 structures in ruin, maybe even more as assessment continues, when the light comes up, the winds have died down. we do not have hurricane force winds any longer. no 100 mile-per-hour wind gusts. we will have wind gusts that strike back up later today. nothing as forceful as the last 48 to 72 hours things is they

can get choppers and planes in the air. drop water and put some of these out this fire i'm standing in right now is zero percent contained. last night another fire that was ignited one of five in the hollywood hills. it's called the sun set fire. we were there on the ground as it happened watching people evacuate, throw their animals in the back of vehicles. sit in convoys of cars to try to get on to sunset boulevard and leave that area. and we followed the first responders, men and women in as they drug the hoses up into the hills fighting gravity with the water coming up out of the ground and trying to fight all of the embers as they went from tree to tree, structure to structure. that's zero percent contained as well so this is just a massive catastrophe. five people are dead and many

other injured. and livelihoods destroyed. back to you guys. >> ainsley: all right, robert, thank you so much. be careful. as thousands are fleeing all those raging fires, neighbors and business owners wasting no time jumping in now to do their part. >> what happened during this experience was that we found out noun of success a celebrity a poor person, rich person, democrat or republican. we are just neighbors just really helping each other. >> ainsley: that's james woods referring to his friend and our next guest opening up his pharmacy to help the evacuees with their healthcare needs, jeff gross is the owner of mickey fine pharmacy in l.a. and he joins us now. good morning to you. thank you so much for being with us. >> good morning, ainsley. how are you today? >> ainsley: i'm doing well. we have been praying for all of y'all and it's hard to report on all of this because you all are americans and we love each and every one of you and love that area.

jeff, why did you decide to do this. you are opening up your pharmacy at 7:30 your time so you could help people. what gave you this idea? >> so, actually, we are normally open at 7:30 in the morning, i'm friends with james and i knew that his house was in the danger zone i texted him and checking in on him and later in the east coast i said look, if you need any help or your friends let them know we are open at 7:30 in the morning to help them. and i had no idea it was going to go so viral. what "fox & friends" talks about is always just about being a community and just being there for each other. and that's really what independent pharmacy, community pharmacy, not just my pharmacy feempses across the country that's what we do. we were there for the pandemic. we actually gave free vaccines

for monkeypox. we are here for emergencies without some reform in the government. independent pharmacy is not going to be there for people and when amazon and the mail orders are not able to help out, you know, the entire nation is going to be in trouble. >> ainsley: you have to walk right into a pharmacy like i love to do. many people were not able to get out of their houses and go into their bathrooms and grab their medicines. many people saying they got their car keys and out of there to run for their lives. are you hearing a lot of stories that people might have forgotten their medicines or nurses and doctors lost their houses they are not able to be there for their patients? absolutely. people, pets, papers prescriptions, a lot of people are forgetting their refrigerated items. you know, they grabbed their bottles but they forget the refrigerator items, which are

the most expensive and the insurance companies are not being friendly and allowing people to get their medicines early. a friend of mine she needed her pet medication. she wasn't able to get it filled at a chain store because they were not -- they wouldn't fill it. because it wasn't in the proper format. so that's where the independent pharmacy, community pharmacy is really stepping up for not just our local community but the broader community. she lives in altadena. she was affected by a fire 30 minutes away. >> ainsley: well, a lot of people it's worth it drive the 30 minutes to save your life. my mom was a diabetic and needed her insulin. you would have been a gordon send for her. jeff, thank you so much. we appreciate you doing. this thank you very much and have a wonderful rest of your day. let's pray for the winds to keep calm. >> ainsley: thank you. >> thank you. >> ainsley: more "fox & friends" coming up. ♪

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