visit bethany.com/be strong. all those proceeds will go to help folks here in california. thank you for joining us. >> i want to say i'm and my partner's mission the 501c3 and they do all the logistics and the trucking and they are mobilizing right now. >> lawrence: thank you for all you do. bethany.com/be strong. >> brian: she does a fantastic job. >> ainsley: they went to puerto rico. >> lawrence: they'll have anything, food, clothes, we'll rebuilding for a long time. >> steve: fox is geared up for a big news days. jimmy carter's funeral. keep it right here all day. bill and dana next. >> look at this. look at this.

everything is on fire. >> let's get out of here. >> at one point -- >> it's really scary. >> never expected to see all these people out here waiting in the cold to get as far away from the fire as we possibly can. >> bill: all of that in one single day stunning. californians running for their lives at times. new wildfires erupting overnight. worst out break in l.a. history. that is a live picture now 6:00 local time in california. the sun will come up within the hour and we'll start to see more of the devastation that is left for so many. tough times here. we'll go through it together on this thursday morning. i'm bill hemmer live in new york. >> dana: good morning, i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." los angeles officials are scheduled to give an update at 11:00 a.m. eastern.

crews are battling five major wildfires, the flames have so far consumed more than 40 square miles. that is roughly the size of san francisco and highly populated. >> bill: so many of these numbers it is hard to convey the sheer scope of what we're seeing here. but here is what we know as of this hour. five people have died. you have more than 2000 homes and businesses that are gone. the power has been knocked out for more than 330,000 people, more than 130,000 others have been ordered to evacuate as of this hour. >> dana: it is the pictures that really tell the story. screen left is before the fires and screen right is after. trees, homes, entire neighborhoods all reduced to ash. >> bill: our teams are out there yet again on the streets of california. team fox coverage, jonathan hunt standing by at a place close to where he was yesterday. william la jeunesse has moved to pacific palisades out of malibu.

we've been watching you for hours. what do you have now at this hour? hello. >> good morning, bill. i say the worst is not over. very possibly you look at some of those pictures right now that we have up and the hollywood fire, it is not over, right? we have red flag warnings here in l.a. county through friday. but we are expecting winds closer to 25, not 75. they've doubled the number of firefighters and full contingent of air support. i'm in the hardest hit area in pacific palisades. this is essentially main street. this is walking street where you see the celebrities like tom hanks, billy crystal who live here. this is an area that has been turned to rubble. this is the street where you have the jewelry store, the clothing boutique, the antique store, etc. , where people hang out. the juice bar. now 1000 homes or more have been destroyed. businesses and schools here in the palisades. two controversies now.

number one, $18 million cut from the fire budget and the mayor was warned that it would hurt the department in major emergencies like this one. the second one over running out of water in the middle of fighting a fire. the utility has three 1 million gallon tanks. the mayor was told that that situation, she basically indicated that they didn't run out of water. when the utility said they did. >> so much water was being used before it could get to the tanks we were not able to fill the tanks fast enough. the consumption of water was fast enough. >> water remains in the palisades through hydrants. claims that the tanks weren't full are false. >> hours ago dwp indicated that people should not use the water.

they should boil it first. that is ironic since people don't have power and the gas was cut off as well so they can't run the generators. also they have no cell or internet. elon musk he is bringing star links like we're using now to some affected areas in the fires to help people communicate to friends and relatives. the other fires burning we have the eaton fire that's 11 thousand acres, five fatalities there. hollywood fire started overnight. the one in hollywood is rather stubborn. we'll go there now. the cause of all these major fires remains under investigation. for context, the camp fire in 2018 cost $19 billion. most expensive fire in u.s. history. this fire, much smaller, that

was 153 thousand acres, this is 20 or 30,000 acres, this will cost 52 to 57 billion dollars. reflecting the land values in palisades and malibu. >> bill: no cause yet for how these fires started? >> that's correct. no cause. >> bill: is arson a possibility? >> yeah, given that the first one, this started at 10:30. it's a possibility. you could also look at maybe landscaping. all it took was a spark, right? this happened in a residential area, kind of unusual. >> bill: thank you. stay close and we'll be back with you shortly there in pacific palisades. let's get to jonathan hunt who continues the coverage in

pacific palisades. >> this is the heart of residential pacific palisades. it is a very, very well-known area and the human impact that is still the headline today. you can talk about numbers and businesses, but it is the human impact and we're seeing still just while we were here the flames over there sparked up. we thought that most of the flames had dissipated today and this was going to be a day when the firefighters could really get hold of things. but the flames are still there. then you come back talking about the human impact which is what this story is all about. take a look at this home here as some flames still continue to lick at what are the ruins of this. this is a $3 million home. i would say it's probably around the average cost for the alphabet street neighborhood. i have seen aerial pictures, by the way, of this neighborhood. we're working to verify them but if you look at those, it shows

that pretty much every single home in this neighborhood completely destroyed. as you look down this street as far as we can in the pre-dawn darkness you can see that every home as far as we can see is indeed destroyed. about 3 1/2 thousand people live in alphabet street. you are talking hundreds of homes and if when the light comes up we can show you within the next hour that indeed that is the the case, then it is absolutely extraordinary. as they count the number of homes and businesses destroyed, it is going to skyrocket if what we are seeing here now on the ground, having got into these alphabet streets for the first time, if what the initial indications we're getting are correct, then this is going to be a catastrophe for so many families. the thing to remember with all of this is as people talk about do they have enough -- did they

have enough water, were they well enough trained. those firefighters did everything they could with what they had and it is -- they were trying to save property and lives first of all, property second. they did manage to save thousands of lives literally in the pacific palisades, but equally thousands of properties they simply could not save because they were so hard stretched. that is somebody's home. just think if you were -- if you come back in the next couple of days, imagine leaving your home on monday or tuesday and then thursday or friday you come back and that is what you see. and that is the stark reality in the pacific palisades and in some of the other fires around the l.a. area but most specifically here. this is the stark reality that so many families are going to face. this is a tragedy and yet people will talk about the trainings,

the issues, the water, but this is a tragedy for humans. this is a tragedy for hundreds and hundreds of families, bill and dana. >> dana: thank you so much and we'll be in touch with you throughout the next two hours. we're joined by kennedy and todd piro on set. let's start with kennedy for reflections this morning. >> every person i talked to has lost their home. they don't know where to begin, they don't know where to go. a lot of them have been dropped by their insurance companies so they are relying on whatever funds will be available. they are looking at high deductibles, these are people who work very hard who don't have the means to rebuild or pay off mortgages. they don't have schools for grocery stores. they don't have their sentimental things. we all know you can replace stuff, but my best friend that i talked to, she took as much as she could in two s.u.v.s, her

house is gone. a chimney and two trees they planted that they hoped would i give them a firewall. the friend i told you about, the single mom, photographer praying that someone could get eyeballs on her house, her house is gone. everything that's in it. everything she had from her kids' childhood is gone. she got her cameras, dog and daughters and they left, they beat the gridlock but now they don't have the school to go to. they don't know -- and they talk about rebuilding. they don't know how you do that. how you put your life and your community back together. i know they will. i know it's a collection of remarkable families who work very, very hard but like them, i don't know where you begin here. that's happening all over southern california. >> bill: that's just one family. >> to follow up. when we do stories on this we talk about the coast ali lets and talk about the hollywood celebrities that have these mansions and live a life of

luxury. that may be true for certain areas in malibu and beverly hills and the like. pacific palisades is a unique community. it reminds me more of the rest of america than any other part in california. these are people that aren't the rich and famous. these are the hard working americans that get up every day and go to work. not that that makes it worse but it underscores especially with the insurance situation that it will be really tough for these individuals to get back on their feet. a lot of those homes in the pacific palisades are passed down generation to generation. somebody bought the house for $1 hundred thousand in the 60s. it has aappreciated but that person doesn't have the means to write a check for $5 million to rebuild. it is a community. it is hurting and it will be curious to see how they are able to rebuild and how quickly. >> bill: it is a description that is fitting also east of there in places like pasadena

and altadena. similar culture and community there. karen bass, the mayor, is under a lot of fire. she was in africa, back in l.a. now. a reporter caught up to her at the airport as she was either waiting for her luggage, car or both and this is what transpired. >> do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, madam mayor? have you nothing to say today? have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today. no apology for them? do you think you should have been visiting ghana while this was unfolding back home? >> bill: she will proverb at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. the whole issue about water. you know it well. did they screw up? >> they absolutely screwed up. you listen to the impassioned interview on tuesday night with fox local. he was on the water and power board. this is one of the things he

campaigned on when he ran against karen bass in 2022 because he has seen this catastrophe coming and they have mismanaged this in every possible way. for her to stand there stone faced unempathetic with no answers at all. dana, you know this. you have to have something to say to people, to people who are hurting. you have to have something and she had nothing but emptiness. she should resign right now. i'm not kidding. yes, people are going through the stages of grief and tragedy and loss but the undercurrent there is absolute anger and there is no accountability. for her to say the tankers were full? where were they have when houses were burning. where were the tankers tuesday night? she didn't know. she was partying in ghana. >> dana: sounded like she didn't have a long flight to think about what she might say. thank you both.

appreciate you. i'm sure we'll see you throughout the day. >> bill: thank you both. we have a man in los angeles, too, to our local affiliate begging for water as the flames came near his house. >> the entire neighborhood is burnt down. somehow my house doesn't have a scratch. there is no fire damage. i went in. the house next to mine is still on fire. i am going around begging anybody to come put out the fire to protect my home. help, please help. based on the size of the fire to the east of my house, it probably will take 5 to 10 minutes for a hose to put it out. you think you'll lose everything. the house that your kids grew up in is about to burn down and your kids are scared and you just want to protect it for your kids. >> bill: god bless him, wow. the governor was on last night on cnn and that whole issue about water and supply came up, too. this is how it transpired with

anderson cooper. >> dana: we don't have that. let me read to you what the governor said. local folks are trying to figure it out. just when you have a system not dissimilar to what we've seen in other large scale fires whether pipe electricity or the complete overwhelming of the system. those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one. something at this scale. that will be determined by the local authorities. it goes deeper than that to me. a decades-long situation when it comes to the building of reservoirs, the clearing of brush and you will see there will be a huge argument at some point about what causes this. is it climate change? you can't just put everything in the climate change bucket and walk away and act like you don't have responsibility to do something about it. >> bill: if i was governor i would say we'll figure out what the answer is and for the people suffering. >> dana: he is under a lot of pressure. >> bill: there was another big story today and want to get to that. the nation will mourn our 39th

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has that died down now? >> well, it depends on where you are at, bill. good morning to you. yes, hell on earth, hella, apocalyptic. i don't say that lightly by any means as i stand here in pacific palisades not too far from the phs and pacific ocean where parts of malibu are destroyed and all these neighborhoods over 1 thousand structures in ruin. this is a big structure as fires continue to simmer here, roof collapsed, pieces of big beams crushed on the sides, over 1000 structures destroyed here in pacific palisades. zero percent containment. over 17,000 acres burned. this is one of fire fires, bill. another one in the hollywood hills, sunset fire . we were there as firefighters pulled up and began to ask people to evacuate and they went up into

the hills. we followed them. we showed their bravery as they took the hoses up the hills and tried to get what they could out there to contain the fire. that fire is zero contained right now. as the sun comes up, here is a glimmer of hope. we will have an aerial assault here today on any of the fires that are still burning. the winds have died down enough that we'll see choppers and planes try to attack this not only from the air, but also on the ground as thousands of personnel, first responders are here to try to make that happen risking their lives. in the meantime, the human impact is significant. people are displaced. they've lost everything as you can see behind me. five people have lost their lives at this point. there are people in critical conditions in hospitals and again, five fires continue to burn here. and this is a catastrophic event

by the likes -- l.a. has not seen in any recent term or remembering. a lot of questions to be answered certainly. but right now people are mourning the loss of their livelihoods, their friends, and their family, bill. >> bill: robert wray in l.a. we'll be back with you throughout the day. thank you, robert. >> dana: the historic home of legend will rogers and buildings at topanga state park are among the things decimated. here is his great granddaughter. we're sorry to all of you, our prayers are with you. tell us what you have been through. did you have to evacuate? and what do you think is left of these wonderful state parks? >> well, for years i've wanted to get will rogers on your show.

i am sorry it took this to happen. yes, unfortunately will rogers historic park burned to the ground, the historic stables, his beautiful ranch house. but what i would like to say is, you know, our ranch, topanga state park is equivalent to your new york's central park. it is a place for people to go to get away, 186 acres. the trails are still there. the park is still there. right now it is closed but when it is safe, we'll let people know. we want to welcome people back. we have people come from all over l.a. it is a hidden gem for people to get away like your central park. and we don't know the future right now.

i am in direct contact with state parks. they are devastated and fiercely trying to save other parks in the area. but the park is secure and it is closed at this time. we were able to get a lot of the items out of the house. i don't know the extent of what was taken out at this time but we were able to get a lot of the artwork and a lot of the things out of the house and they are secure in los angeles. i will be visiting the area once it is safe and as i said we don't know the future right now. we're devastated. the neighbors and the community that were supporters of the park have lost everything. they are my dear friends. my co-founder of the foundation for the branch, her grand

parents were personal assistance to will and better rogers and lived at the ranch. she was out of town at a business conference, came home and her home is gone. i can't tell you how many people i know that have lost everything. so we lost the ranch, but the ranch is still there. it doesn't speak to what people are losing. this is just devastating. >> bill: you give great voice to your family and their legacy and thank you for sharing that. >> thank you. if i can do anything, will rogers was a man that brought america together. he brought the world together. i invite people to visit will rogers.com. we'll do this and that's my job. >> dana: thank you, jennifer. >> thank you for having me. >> bill: thank you for coming on. from california let's move to the other coast in washington, d.c. this is another major story

we're juggling at the moment. look how beautiful this is at the national cathedral in d.c. the funeral service for the former president jimmy carter about to get underway. all living successors are gathered at the cathedral. david spunt is there to give you us a preview. >> a sad day but also a day of celebration for the 39th president james earl carter, jr. i may have to be silent in a moment and forgive me. the motorcade should be making its way soon. out of respect for president carter they asked we don't talk for a little while. president biden will give the eulogy joined by four of his predecessors, bill clinton, barack obama, george bush and president-elect donald trump as the motorcade behind me pulls up right now. i will lower my voice. >> bill: thank you for that. david spunt outside a beautiful cathedral. the last time i was there was

the funeral for 41. >> dana: we were together. was that one of our first times together? yes. i think so. it is a beautiful building and a beautiful moment for the carter family and all his friends and of course the five living presidents that are there to pay tribute. >> bill: we'll keep a very close eye on that. in the meantime we have this devastation in l.a. trying to figure out what we'll see what the sun comes up in 15 or 20 minutes. a live look at a fire line in los angeles. you have entire communities just gone, burned down to the ground within minutes. stunning images before and after that inferno. we'll show those to you as well. give you a sense of just how enormous this was and how quickly it overcame so many. a live report from the fire zone continues. >> five, six, eight, ten houses in our neighborhood gone like that. we've been here this morning since 8:00 a.m. fighting them

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>> dana: fox news alert. crews are fighting to contain the devastating wildfires in southern california this morning. officials ordering more than 130,000 people to evacuate. smoke and dust advisory are extending to 17 million people. marissa torres is in pacific palisades and joins us now. hi. >> good morning. we'll power the light back on. we're in pacific palisades at the end of the road pretty much behind my camera is the pch which is closed. i can hear the ocean waves. the sun is coming up. an orange tint as the sun tries to fight through but we're stuck in smoke. we have some spot fires behind me. i want to show you quickly because we are getting a little organized here. what we're standing in front of is a home.

this home, i can't really see it behind me. i can tell this was a garage. that's an easy thing to take away. the car completely burned and scorched. what i'm holding is a piece of metal that at one point was completely melted down due to the heat of the fire and cooled down similar what was in terminator ii. the machine that could melt down. that's what it is looking this. this scope of this damage is what is so breathtaking. the poor quality of air has encapsulated so much of l.a. county. no fire firefighters on scene as this one is no longer a threat. we'll see the winds kick up later today. >> dana: thank you so much. let's go to bill for more. >> bill: we were showing the map yesterday to give you a sense of the area out there. numerous fires. here is downtown los angeles. i want to put a focus here on right in this area here and then

right here. this is malibu and what marissa was talking about in the palisades area above malibu. we want to show our viewers. this is altadena, california. beautiful leafy neighborhood. a lot of trees and homes. right next to each other. this is when hell hit. you have no shot, right, dana? it is every home is on fire and this is what's left after in altadena. it is dirt and ash everywhere from that satellite image. same neighborhood now looks like a shopping center down here and again the homes that are spread out and then when the fires hit it just is burning anything it can. now in the malibu area, the pacific coast highway. if you drive along the pch, in this part of malibu you have to peer between the homes to see

the pacific. william la jeunesse, all these homes are gone. if you were to drive along the pch right now all you see is water, pacific ocean. hasn't been that way in 75 years since construction started. this was the before. this is what you have in malibu now. stunning. dana, back over to you. >> dana: we want to bring in san monica mayor. you have not slept and up all night. i want to show the exact evacuation range for santa monica ca and tell me more what your constituents are going through. well, currently right now we have no active fires in santa monica but it is encroaching really closely and why both mandatory and warning evacuation zones did expand last night.

i have also issue and emergency order to clear out the areas and put out a curfew so law enforcement professionals can protect those areas that are voluntarily evacuated: >> dana: how are your water levels in santa monica right now? >> we aren't impacted by any boil orders right now. there is a boil order in the 90242 palisades zip code at this point because of the idea of ash getting into the water. we use the same pump but not affected by that. our water levels, drinking water, that has been fine. we have not had many outages. we had spotty outages throughout the past 24, 36 hours but so far no permanent outages. the wind caused a lot of downed trees in the neighborhood but again currently no active fires at this moment in santa monica. >> at one point there were

reports of looting in santa monica. can you confirm that it happened or how you are trying to prevent the possibility. >> we have amazing regional support from agencies. the first evening i was out there were 25 police agency cars from various agencies from culver city and others. we have a lot of support. there is the national guard isn't out there yet but ready to be deployed to santa monica if we need it. we thwart ed some nefarious activity. everyone has been extremely vigilant. the police department is doing an amazing job. we have a team out there. there were a couple of incidents that were able to be thwarted. right now we have a good handle on protecting our residents and the community from any looting. >> dana: thank you for joining us today in this fast-breaking story. we wish you the best and hope that it continues to be the case

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>> flames on both sides. definitely you know, you could hear it crackling. it's hot. big old chunks of fire hitting me and i need to get out of here. >> dana: a worst case scenario in southern california. crews are struggling to contain five wildfires. one is the palisades fire. it is now the most destructive in los angeles' history. max gordon is there in pacific palisades. the sun is starting to come up. max, what do you see? >> it's hard to put into words what this scene is like. it does feel like a war zone or

like a bomb went off. all of the cliches that you might say but to really be here and to smell the smoke and to see just so many lives that have been essentially ruined, it's really hard to put those things into words. what i want to do is talk to john, he is a man who lives here in pacific palisades. john, you lost your home, am i correct? >> we lost our home. my parents saved up lots of money to be able to live here for over 50 years. my sister and her husband saved up their money, raised a family, moved just two blocks away north of sunset. this is devastation. souls are being touched right now. homes are destroyed. it can be rebuilt but this is destroying families, routines for 30,000 plus people to be displaced is truly sad. what would happen in a third

world country. our fire department is totally underfunded. they are doing a great job but we should have more in the air protection and we don't. >> could you have ever imagined that a wildfire would impact a neighborhood like this? this is what you normally think of when you think of a wildfire. >> when i evacuated my parents we were finished eating dinner and doing the dishes. we saw embers. in a matter of 30 seconds, the wind was going in all directions. there is no rhyme or reason to why this fire spread the way it did. >> what is it like to walk in this neighborhood that i'm sure you've taken this walk countless times and then today you are doing that in a neighborhood that's been completely transformed? >> i'm thinking of the sons and daughters of parents i know where they are going to live or they will go to school. where will they buy food? our groceries stores are gone.

the way the permit process is in l.a. these homes won't be rebuilt for two years. this is devastation and should never have happened. it could have been prevented. >> john, thank you so much for talking with us. i can't imagine what you are going through. unfortunately so many people going through this same exact thing. you just look block after block of destroyed homes. to the east of us the eaton fire is burning near pasadena five people lost their lives. so many lives upturned here in southern california and unfortunately these fires continue to rage out of control. guys. >> dana: thank you so much, max gordon. we'll be with you throughout the day. >> bill: bret baier joins us now. good morning. a couple of things i want to roll for you here. this is sound bite we tried to get it in bit earlier this hour from cnn gavin newsom was asked about the water. watch. >> what is the situation with the water? in palisades you ran out last night in the hydrants.

they left because there was no water in the hydrant here. >> local folks are trying to figure that out. when you have a system that's not dissimilar to what we've seen in large scale fires, whether it be pipe, electric or overwhelm of the system. you have two or three fires. that will be determined by the local authorities. >> that's the way he chose to answer that. and just a moment ago the incoming president fired again at the governor, fire spreading rapidly for three days, zero containment. that is true in one part. maybe two based on the reporting we're getting so far, bret. nobody has ever seen such failed numbers before. gross incompetence by newsom and bass and biden's fema has no money. la is a total wipe-out. here we go. where do we end up? >> yeah. that's a good question. i think there will be a lot of

talk from local residents about their concerns that they have expressed prior to this moment. obviously these fires operating differently. maybe all the way back to the 90s the fires there not as explosive as these have been with these winds up to 100 miles-per-hour. a lot of blame to go around for local and state authorities. it has been talked about for a long time. not just president-elect trump but other officials and races in california that have been bringing this up. i think the federal response will be interesting. president biden after he delivers the eulogy for the 39th president is going back to the white house and holding a briefing in the roosevelt room. we expect to see some of that. but remember, fema doesn't have a lot of money. congress is going to have to act to shore that up. that's a whole other discussion about fema and the spending of fema. and there was some criticism about what the pentagon is

doing. jennifer griffin asked great questions at the pentagon briefing yesterday. why couldn't they get more out to the west and i think there will be a lot of questions going around about this response. >> dana: at this moment we just saw president trump at the funeral there for jimmy carter shaking the hands of al gore and his former vice president mike pence and he and the first lady, melania trump sitting down at the funeral. you think about the cost of some of these major natural disasters we've seen. even just this year. it is not just the cost of the finances that are going to take place. for example, los angeles is set to host the olympics in 2028 for example. there is a lot of expense coming across the board and then you have a very complicated situation in many states with insurance. and how do you see the trump administration taking that all on board while they also try to get one big beautiful bill done

before the first 100 days. >> you are trying to cut, doge is trying to figure out where to cut back and they will have plenty of things to cut. the federal government is massive. but at the same time, you always have something like this, a natural disaster. something that requires a lot of immediate money going different places. so it is a challenge and it is a big challenge that every one of those presidents that is sitting in that washington national cathedral has dealt with. you have plans, you have blueprints of what you want to do and what you want to cut and fund and then something like this happens. >> bill: amazing thing to me as we sit here and watch a major american city still burning and they don't have the resources to put out the fire. i know they are trying to prioritize other things and like just let it burn to the ground but it's quite a statement when we allow that to happen. or you are forced to let it

happen because you don't have the resources. quickly on that, bret. >> bret: right. the mayor with the cut of $18 million for the fire department. that is poorly timed looking at what we're looking at now. there will be a lot of talk about this. >> bill: bret, thank you. back to california and back to washington, d.c. for the funeral of jimmy carter. ♪ his what he's doing now? as your host, i have some rules. first, no showers longer than 5 minutes. this isn't a spa. no games. no fun. yes, coach. (♪) meanwhile, at a vrbo... when other vacation rentals make you share your turf with a host, try one you have all to yourself. as the people you love get older,

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donald trump and barack obama have a lot to say to each other. >> dana: i'm sure the lip reeders will try to get ahold of that. i'm sure it is a chance for the president's club. this is a tribute to the former president, jimmy carter, who will be laid to rest later today. the funeral first at the national cathedral which will be a beautiful ceremony covered in full on fox business. >> bill: you think about picture now, kamala harris, hillary clinton. bill clinton was just in the hospital and looks no worse for the wear. a close-up shot of him a moment ago. he looks good and healthy and together they come together and well, they will honor the 39th president and joe biden, the current president, will help deliver the eulogy and we will certainly be available for