states the most amazing economy you are out of your [bleep] mind duty room in the state. >> martha: so mel gibson on the other side of that conversation and he is not alone in recognizing governor newsom's responsibilities here. we saw him with president biden yesterday. we do expect president biden will be making a statement about the wildfires and the response to them. there was the smog that santos and over los angeles with the smoke that has settled over the entire area the skies are blue now. hopefully this will give a little bit of cover and ability for more choppers to get into the air. the wind has been very high that is a concern so obviously continuing live coverage of these fires in los angeles area that is the story for today i martha maccallum. trace gallagher coming up with live coverage from california next. >> i'm trace gallagher welcome

to "your world" we are live today in the pacific palisades. maybe the hardest hit area we don't know because we really have not surveyed what is going on in the fires in altadena and pasadena but in this area and pacific palisades it is our first chance to get an up close street by street block by block look and i know the term war zone is overused but this looks like a war zone to. you walk around up here in this area and you csee it isy house. street by street block by block no matter where you go and pacific palisades it looks like this. you can hear the crunching beneath the feet of my photographer tommy chu. that is the rubble. and right now i would say that 50, 60% of pacific palisades is nothing but trouble. we go down here it is kind of fascinating because both sides of the street it is on every single block

except when you come up the house. when you come up the hose from the palisades it looks like nothing was touched and then you start to get to the top end it starts to threaten out and everything is just decimated. we will take you on an entire tour of what we found today and pacific palisades. one of the wealthiest areas in the country. celebrities have lost their homes. thousands of people have lost their homes and pacific palisades. but we want to start the show in the other fire the other major fire the eaton fire which is pasadena, altadena, again 10,000, 18,000 acres burnt up there and we don't have an exact count of how many buildings and homes and structures have been destroyed but by all accounts it, as well as the palisades, will be in the thousands. they are calling this the worst natural disaster in los angeles history. let's get live to matt finn he is in

altadena with more what is happening over there. what do you see? >> trace, we are 25 miles inland from where you are in the palisades and there has been a few fires across los angeles county the past couple days. look at the devastation from this one. very similar to the palisades and west hollywood where i have been reported destruction as far as the eye can see in some locations. homes, businesses, cars destroyed. it looks like there is natural gas coming out from some of these homes keeping some of these flames alive and just a tragedy. a thick blanket of smoke covering the altadena area. a red haze. we pan around to the right you can see even more businesses destroyed and then up in the sky there are still active fires in the san gabriel area. that is spewing ash and debris and smoke down onto the stone. so really an apocalyptic

scene here. it kind of feels like a volcano went off here in this area. on our drive here this morning there was smoke and -- all across the sky of l.a. county. we're hearing some booms in the distance. trace law enforcement trying to keep people away trying to keep looters out of here. this is obviously an active investigation. >> trace: live for us in altadena we will get back to you. i want to show you some of the things and pacific palisades. you could see the car clearly burned out but the block melted. you talk about the heat that went through these neighborhoods over the past couple of days. you swing around here to these areas you can see some of the cars here because they just drove in but most of the cars that were here that were left are gone. they are burnt out. across the street that was a huge house. i mean we are talking about giant parcels onto

big piece. this and we have associates who live in this area. we have driven through this area many, many times over many, many years. these are beautiful neighborhoods and no longer. the rule in television news is when you get on the scene you want to find a disaster seen it. you want to find the worst theory so that you can articulate to people, so you can illustrate to people how bad the damage in. we drove around for an hour and a half today and could not pick an area because every area looks like this. block after block we went earlier to a different area and pacific palisades where we found something unusual. watch. we are kind of taking a tour through the business area of pacific palisades this is the city center if you will. what you are looking at is the gulf and supermarket totally destroyed and it amazingly the hardware store across the street is untouched.

you walk over here to the famed sunset boulevard it runs right to the pacific palisades, across the street there was a mall. nail salons, beauty partners, frame shops, et cetera, all totally gone as you go down the entire block. some of this is still standing a lot of it is destroyed. interesting as you look across the street the buildings in this business district that fared the worst apparently closest to the fire station. that was the business center. that was really the heart of pacific palisades. a little bit later we are going to go deeper and some of these neighborhoods and some of these magnificent neighborhoods at least they were magnificent and show you some different aspects of this. you look at the trees and the burns all around the smoke is clearing get a lot of areas so they have been able to get some of the air assets. we have seen a number of

planes fly over we have seen helicopters dropping the flyover target. so the wind is down low enough where at least in the areas that are burning, the embers are no longer going from left to right. no longer moving 100 feet per second. the embers and i'll just drifting up in the air so they have here as if they are fairly innocuous at this point in time but when the wind shifts and changes what happens is those numbers become lethal all over again. there were reports of human remains being found in the malibu area. we sent max gordon up there he is live for us to tell us what he learned. >> an update on the palisades fire and malibu i spoke to a detective with los angeles county sheriff department and to confirm to me that human remains were found in the home that you can see behind me burnt down detectives or deputies last night responded to

this call is a welfare check. that is when those human remains were found a person has not been identified but officials with the medical examiner's office they have just move the body in the identification process will start to take place. now obviously hear a lot of members of the media you can see have gathered for this update because of this developing story this would be the first confirmed casualty here on the palisades fire. but from where we are standing we can see the devastation up and down the pacific coast highway. palm trees that have been let a blaze. the rolling waves the reason why everybody comes to this place almost a surrealist seem to be along the pch to see all of this unfolding. currently the palisades fire sitting at around 17,200 acres. and again the first casualty associated with this fire, potentially

right here in malibu. to the east of us the eaton fire continues to burn that is where matt finn is that fire city got around 10,600 acres. at least five people dead and that blaze. tragedy continues to unfold across southern california. trace? >> trace: max gordon live for us in malibu and what we have been learning over the press conference the press conferences we have been hearing is that we have been learning in fact we know of five people who have died of the altadena area have. we know what is happening in malibu and they expect the death toll and these fires once these crews come out and start checking out the homes on the rubble that they will only go up. we want to bring and now we are going to go we are going to hit a break a commercial break here. let's get a commercial break in and then we will come back with the new d.a. in los angeles country.k sh

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>> trace: welcome back to our live coverage in the pacific palisades of the fires in los angeles. again this is our first look our first real tour through the palisades and it is it is ugly.

as ugly as it can get to. we have never seen in all the years we have been covering fire here at fox news channel never seen devastation like this. block after block home after home and the sad part about much of this is that at night when a lot of the crews leave people have left and they have been evacuated there are some bad people that come in and they have been losing some of these homes. stealing some of these homes and on that note we want to bring in the new los angeles county district attorney nathan hochman thank you so much for coming on. i know that the homes that are still standing in the palisades are unproductive. people also know they are unprotected and they were looters. there are a lot of looters what is the remedy how do we stop these people? >> here is how we stop them. i have personally gone through pacific palisades yesterday because my sister's home she has been there for 15 years with their four boys and

husband burning to the ground. you are right the vision that is in front of you was basically apocalyptic. so here is the message. the unmistakably clear message i want to send to anybody thinking about looting, stealing, robbing, or engaging in any type of scam from the people who have suffered these tragedies and will be looking for government assistance and insurance. and we will arrest you, we will prosecute you, we will punish you the full extent of the law. if you want to engage in these despicable ax they are not unforgivable they are despicable. i want you to know the d.a.'s office working with law enforcement will bring the full weight of the law against you. >> trace: and with all due respect it is one of those things in california where people are skeptical than you can understand their skepticism because when you live in california especially over the past four or five years you know that there have

been very few consequences for people who steal. people go in and they still with reckless abandon. they do not care because they realize they will be back out on the street today or tomorrow and so there is this belief that it is not a problem. you can go when you can take whatever you want whenever you want to. how do you change that belief that message? >> the way i change it is what i'm doing. i'm going on every different media outlet to send this message which is a warning. a very, very clear warning. there is no bluffing there is know you were going to somehow game the system we will arrest you we will prosecute you and you will be punished to the maximum extent of the law. so i don't want to hear any excuses later from some criminal saying you did not do that two, three, four years ago. the law is the law. we will enforce the law it has not changed. would probably have changed is the desire to

enforce it and it will be enforced in the circumstances. >> trace: i know you are the new los angeles district attorney and many put you in office just because you believe you will do that. -- they believe he will do that. on a personal note district attorney i want to know you said you had family here in the palisades, when you came up here, because what we are looking at here is stunning, we have been covering fires for 40 years i have never seen anything like this. what was your thought when you came up here and he looked at what has happened over the past two days? >> when i came up yesterday there were fires burning on both sides of the road. and you could not believe it. i mean because usually if there was one fire on one store or one home you see a whole bunch of fire engines surround ticket pouring water into which. as i went from home to home block to block it literally is like an apocalyptic vision. a bomb went off in pacific palisades and

leveled these homes. i mean my sister's home is a perfect example. the only thing that was left was a washing machine and a bike that had melted. a whole bunch of rubble all around what used to be a beautiful two-story home she had lived there for 15 years. again it is an unspeakable tragedy for l.a. but i will tell you this. i lived to the 1990s where we had the fires, the flood, the earthquakes, on the riot. i thought that was pretty bad but what i saw is that l.a. has great, it has resilience, it will come back it will build itself back and be better than ever. >> trace: we hope so. about last -- lastly like to ask you to look these neighborhoods in altadena and pasadena various neighborhoods would you be behind an effort to try to protect these efforts -- areas at night to keep people out of here they don't belong in here and night? >> i am actually working with law enforcement with sheriff luna from yellow sheriff department,

chief don from l.a.p.d. and local police agencies. i can tell you they are treating this as in all hands on deck type of operation. detectives are putting on uniforms and getting out into the streets to send a message to would-be criminals that the police will catch you and then they will turn you over to the d.a.'s office and we will prosecute you. but, yes, we can use as much law enforcement help as we can and if anybody has any information about people looting, stealing, or scamming, please contact law enforcement immediately and we will do our jobs. >> trace: nathan hochman best of luck to you, sir, thank you for coming on the show. >> thank you very much. >> trace: it is amazing as we walk up and down the streets here and we survey some of the area's because we showed you down a short time ago we showed you the car not only did the car burn up at the block melted. it looked like melting lava coming down the road. kind of amazing when you think of how hot this is. our next guest his name

is orly israel. he lives in the palisades with his parents he is 30 years old. when the fires broke out tea and different tried to come up here. tried to come up here had to save their home and fight to save their home in the heat. he will tell us how the fight went and how he finally got out and could not save his home. his story is next. >> got to get out of here. nothing we can do now, nothing we can do now, bro. can do now. can keep coming back. start to break away from uc with tremfya... with rapid relief at 4 weeks. tremfya blocks a key source of inflammation. at one year, many people experienced remission... and some saw 100% visible healing of their intestinal lining. serious allergic reactions and increased risk of infections may occur.

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here. we tried i'm sorry. we tried our best. there's nothing we can do now bro. nothing we can do now. >> trace: he tried anti-tried again. the people we are talking about one of them is orly israel and he lived in the pacific palisades and with the fires began he wanted to save his house his childhood home the place that he grew up in we're on his street we want to bring him in live life right now. i hear what you when your friends are saying tell me why did you try to save your home in the first place and when did you finally decide it was time to leave? >> you have to battle. if the fight is coming to you you bring the fight. we have the hoses, we had the pillows all

thrown out the jacuzzi was ready to be dumped, we fought until we could not find any longer. until it was so hot you could not stand to the backyard without getting your eyes burned. and that is when tanner said nothing we can do now. and we hopped in the car and then the next thing we could do is get out of there. >> trace: i'm kind of on your street right? i'm walking up and down your street and i don't know how you safely got out of here. you walked up and down these blocks and there is nothing but destruction and as you are leaving that you have a plan to get old? wasn't harrowing trying to get out. >> we stayed there knowing we had a plan. the second we thought that those trees were going to fall down and block the road we were out. we were not all the cars were ready to go. so there was no chance that we got stuck in there. based on our own

opinions. >> trace: it is amazing to me when you look at some of the video i hope we are playing some of that right now i don't have a monitor so i can't tell but it is interesting that a lot of people are trying to come up we talk to others to try to save their house but they never went inside. they got to the point where they could see the flames close enough you actually went inside. that this is going to be a battle. >> i have always said it is not a party of nobody is dancing. so we made it a party. we lost. we were trying to lose any lives. we got the people around taking action. clean of the palisades gofundme people are trying to make t-shirts that can raise money. we sat around yesterday but now it is time to take action. riske things that can still be done. >> trace: i have been kind of wandering around

pacific palisades and it looks bad. i mean they've alleged looks that everything around here looks bad. you really need your neighbors and your friends and your family to fight and i was kind of the time. >> muhammad ali lost a fight and came back. george foreman lost the fight and came back. a house is a house but the people are strong palisades stronger. kind of corny to be on the other side of hashtag strong but this is where we have to be strong good we have to sit down and nobody is sitting down. the second we can go out there and start cleaning up we can go out there and clean up. >> trace: a valiant effort for trying can tell your friend the same thing thank you for coming on ensuring your story with us best of luck to you and your family. it will be a rough road to recovery. >> pleasure. >> trace: in the

meantime we have been talking a lot about the weather. what we talk about is the wind has died down significantly at least today. this morning they were this morning they were kind of spotty but we have not had wind gusts above 25, 30 miles per hour for at least the past couple of hours. we have to see what the forecast is. fox meteorologist with more on what we can expect in the hours and days ahead. adam? >> that is good news as of right now. unfortunately that is not going to be permanent as we move through overnight tonight and then into the weekend we will see changes in the forecast. these are where our fires all north of los angeles to. the wind has been coming out of the largely northeast pushing ultimately all of that smoke further south ruining air quality. wind speed consistently 10 and 15 miles per hour. wind gusts up to 20 some cases 25 miles per hour those are few and far between. we are anticipated because we run through

the overnight hours to see this wind started to climb once again. 30, 40, 50 mile-per-hour wind overnight and some of those more hilly mountainous areas you get into canyons that is where the wind is always the strongest and that is where they are going to peak once again. this is really overnight into early friday by friday afternoon friday evening we are looking at the wind to almost vanish at least for a little while. suddenly looked again no wind across this entire region this does not last we see the winds pick back up late saturday into sunday but this is good news. we will get a good chunk of time here with almost no wind. today it is critical in the red largely across this entire area. by the time we look at tomorrow it is still there. it is elevated this is as low as we have seen in several days. so the winds will be calmer tomorrow than we have seen since this ultimately broke out a couple days ago. the other story yes, it is the fire damage in the northern area but

this is a real steelmaker this has plummeted across los angeles in some areas for that to the south. huge swath of southern california are here looking at here quality alerts. at times it has been absolutely has it is. it has settled -- settled back down a little bit depending on where the smoke close but right now and healthy. it is but a bunch of time outside right now breathing this in for long periods of time can be dangerous. >> trace: it really is the air conditions are terrible. thank you for the update we appreciated. you can see this will come and go to some of these homes and you look for wind direction by watching the snow can see where it goes. side wind of the property. up next we will get an update on the overall fire situation in los angeles not just in the palisades, not just in malibu, not just the eaton fire in altadena

and pasadena. we will get an update of the conditions and what the fire department plans to do going forward to help the residents who have been so badly badly devastated.

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this appears to be one of the most destructive, disasters in los angeles history. that is saying something. for a city that has undergone earthquakes and so on and so forth all kinds of disasters that is truly saying something. so we wanted to give you perspective, a little bit of context to know where we sit today and where we sat just a few days ago and how many lives have changed. remember that the numbers just kind of run into each other. we know there are a thousand plus homes destroyed in pacific palisades and we have to tell you from first-hand experience that number will go away output. and the eaton fire you were going to have the similar numbers with thousands of homes destroyed or at least a thousand homes destroyed. that is kind of what we are seeing now because the fires were so fast and so hot and the brush and the other fuel was

so high that there was very little ways that people could stop this stuff. there was also a very bad shortage of firefighters and a shortage of water which will be brought up again and again in that. we also want to bring out peter doocy because peter doocy is talking about the federal response to this and what president-elect trump is saying and where we planned to go from here with help from our federal neighbors. what you know? >> trace, to build off what you were just talking about, president-elect trump is also watching as this 50 billion-dollar, 0% contained fire continues to spread. he has a suggestion on truth social. he says governor governor newsom should immediately go up to california and opened up the water main and let the water flow into his dry starving state instead of have to get going to the pacific ocean. it ought to be done right now no more

excuses from this incompetent governor it is already far too late. this cleanup and rebuild will be a huge undertaking during trump's next term. >> so what has happened is a tragedy and the government has not done a good job with that being said i got along well with him when he was governor we worked together very well and we work together so we will be the ones having to rebuild it. >> gavin newsom is taking a lot of and coming from frustrated californians and he says he does not think it is the time for trump to be involving himself right now. >> people of lost their lives, kids a lost their schools, families completely torn asunder, church or sprinted down, this guy wanted to politicize it. i have a lot of thoughts on don't know what i want to say. i won't. >> president-elect trump is back at mar-a-lago after the carter funeral in washington to see and refund to see him two

and a half hours from now when he host republican governors. >> trace: peter doocy live with the latest on that. we should also note that gavin newsom talked about president trump politicizing the scent of course the first time that these fire started gavin newsom took to these microphone and politicize that by taking a few swipes a trump. we want to bring in los angeles fire department spokesman captain ehrman's got. great to have you on the show. we see the air was clearing that the conditions are still terrible but at least we are giving air assets up and around how much is that helping to bring some containment for these fires? >> huge help. the wind is a key component when we are battling wild fire. not just spreading the flames but also in grounding aircraft. so we still have extreme fire behavior that is going on that is absolutely challenging all of firefighters especially in that pacific palisades and

the altadena area. seeing gusts still have two occasions 60 miles per hour but compared to the last two days huge help. you mentioned that is clearing up we are able to fly that is helping us to continue to work to protect the community and the infrastructure and really just try to get some containment around all the wildfires that are burning. >> trace: what about more resources, captain scott? went to a get more resources and are they coming from other parts of california from other states what is the status on resources? >> they are here and more are coming. so this was all very systematic. there was agreements that are signed and written between departments in between the whole state so we can have a neighbor helping neighbor essentially with mutual aid. automatic it agreements meaning all these little departments around l.a. city from the county in santa barbara beverly hills, pasadena, glendale, we will automatically jump it to help each other when we get these big wind

driven fires. that took place day one. now can you get to the state we break down the state into six different regions we systematically can call for the appropriate quantity and type or resources to come. we are beyond that even. we are getting resources from arizona, from all over to help us because we absolutely need the help. los angeles city fire department needs more firefighters we are very appreciated for mutual later. >> trace: when does the investigation start captain scott? when do we start learning more about the cause of the fires, the fire hydrants that were not inspected and checked? when do we get more information about the things that did not go the way we planned them to go? >> anytime there was a large fire or a large incident and there is always a direction report. for instance i am on a federal instant -- incident management team that allows many to go all over the state for the largest of large

types of disasters. that is an after action report that is truly important. because we learn every time there will be things to be corrected and that is what is going to be evaluated. obviously right now we are in what we call initial action. so we have been overwhelmed with how fast-moving this wild fire has been and we are trying to really perform structure defense and the challenges. and other fire and another fire and another fire like you were in a boxing ring with a heavyweight and you take blow after blow after blow. very challenging but we are doing the absolute best we can. >> trace: captain eric scott with los angeles county fire department thank you for your time sir we appreciated. we talk a lot about the federal response to the fires here in california. there is a lot on the plate of the president-elect and his cabinet members to be and what they are trying to accomplish.

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their homes. and so that if they contact disasterassistance.gov, anybody has lost everything or anything of consequence. or 1-800-two or excuse me 1-800-i beg your pardon. 1-800-621-3362. that is the disaster assistance 1-800-613362

to get the kind of help they need for the basics that they do not have access to right now. this morning due to the magnitude of the disaster i was talking with the governor he requested if i could increase the federal funding that was authorized under this legislation by a 75% to 95%. we are increased to get to 100% of all the costs covered by the federal government. both fire management system grants and the elements of what they call disaster declaration. so today i am announcing that the federal government will cover 100% of the cost for 180 days. this will pay for things like the hazardous material rule, temporary shelters, first responder salaries, and all necessary measures to protect life and property. and folks i won't underscore i told the governor local official spare no expense to do

what they need to do to contain these fires in their communities. really have been devastating. we are doing literally everything we can at the federal level. that is also why i call this group these folks around the table all the relevant agencies and departments together to discuss what more we can do. some of the folks around as well. before we begin here is an update on where things stand right now. first first we focus on helping contain these fires over the last 24 hours in the united states forest service. working with state and local responders has suppressed over 50 fire starts. and the fire in the hollywood hills has been contained by brave firefighters risking their lives. right now three major fires are still burning in the pacific palisades the pasadena. i want to be clear what i know from talking to

the governor that there are concerns out there that there has also been a water shortage. the fact is utilities understandably shut off power because they are worried that the lines and they carry energy will be blown out and spark additional fires. cal fire when they did that it cut off really their ability to generate pumping water. that is the cause of the lack of water. and do so cal fire is bringing in generators to get these pumps up and working again so that there is no longer shortage of water coming out of these hydrants. i'm also searching all federal resources possible to southern california including 400 additional firefighters, over 30 firefighting helicopters and planes. firefighting plane and helicopters.

and date department of defense c-130s that are equipped to suppress firefighters -- wildfires. also 500 wildfire ground clearing personnel from the defense department. i have directed the department to continue working with governors to identify additional resources that can provide for public safety and security. and we have secured additional firefighters and firefighting aircraft from our ally in canada as well. they also want everybody in southern california to know we will keep at it. we are sticking with this. we expect that may be a temporary break in the wind in some areas the wind is likely to continue well into next week. and so we are going to continue to spend spend everything literally every resource we can find it is appropriate to help the governor of the first responders. second helping people

who have been displaced or in many cases lost everything. we reported on the state of homes burned to the ground. whole areas burned to the ground. large areas. they have been displaced and lost everything. as i said since the fire started fema has been working with state the state to help residents get shelter, groceries, and especially other critical goods like baby formula. also sent director criswell of los angeles to manage a response on the ground. she was supposed to be on this call but we have the deputy here because she is out with the governor right now surveying what is going on. let me close in on the message of people in southern california. we are with you we are not going anywhere. to the firefighters and first responders, you were heroes. many of these firefighters are out there risking their lives. risking their lives and while their own homes

are in danger. to the firefighters and first responders he really our it is my privilege to say you were heroes you were generally hear -- genuinely heroes. the most widespread devastating fire in california it is amazing nobody understands better to cover this lengthy people who face this. they literally have to run into the flames these firefighters. that old expression. god made man in the image of firefighters who run into the flames. in doing so leaving their own families and helping people and they are in harm's way. so we honor you and we will make sure you get every resource you need. every possible resource you need to. to the families to have been impacted by this disaster you have been through her nightmare i know. i promise you we will help you get through this and eventually recover and rebuild. i'm going to turn it over now to the

vice president before i go one folks in various cabinet positions as well. madame vice president i know you are director... so fire away. no pun intended. >> thank you, mr. president. also for the work that everybody how around this table have spent doing with the appropriate sense of urgency. this is an urgent matter. what we have seen in california and particularly in southern california is apocalyptic in terms of the nature of its on the unprecedented nature of it as well. hand to what we are seeing is a situation that is extremely dynamic, it is very much in play, and to some degree unpredictable. because we are literally waiting to see which way the wind blows. i cannot praise enough the local leaders, most

of whom i have talked with, and in particular are firefighters who has the president has said they are working around the clock. they are working 12 hour even longer shifts and they are doing it with a sense of optimism but also with an understanding of how serious this moment is and how important their work is to realize and tell people. thousands of families have been displaced. many of those families with young children. with no where to go. and what we know is that this is a matter of current urgency but this is also something that is going to have an impact for months and years to come. and on that point i will also make notes of the fact that sadly many insurance companies have canceled insurance for a lot of the families who

have been affected. and will be affected. which is only going to delay or plays an added burden on their ability to recover. i think that is an important point that must be raised and hopefully there can be some way to address that issue. because these families so many of them otherwise will not have the resources. to recover in any meaningful way. and many of them of lost everything. in the midst, however, of all of the trauma that has occurred we have seen extraordinary acts of heroism. i'm hearing countless stories of strangers helping strangers. people who are opening their homes where they are intact and they have not had to evacuate, opening their homes to neighbors, to friends of neighbors, feeding them in providing shelter for them. and i do think that it speaks to the best of who we are as a country which is in times of crisis we find in the

heroes among us who we may not have known before but act out of a sense of courage but also a sense of community. i applaud all of those who are reproaching this crisis. >> trace: there you have vice president come here was talking about the response the fires in california she has a vested interest her house is literally about 2 miles as the crow flies in brentwood, california, which is one of the neighboring neighborhoods in there. we also want to talk to our chief correspondent jonathan on the ground here as well of the pacific palisades at a different area to give us an update were what is happening where he is. jonathan? >> extraordinary scenes everywhere you look in the pacific palisades this is one of them this is the community methodist church and you can see what was the main tower of it still there. almost completely destroyed panting slightly to the right i

can tell you that was the entrance to the community churches preschool. that had to be evacuated on the day of the fire and we are just seeing destruction everywhere we look. right along this bridge. as you come across to the ridge here has brian pans to the left you can see the streets to the left. that is palisades charter high school. firefighters fought a valiant battle to save the majority. about a third of it was destroyed what they saved around 70% of that school still waiting to hear i'm one of the parents waiting to hear what the mic it will be going back to that school when they resume after what was supposed to be winter break next monday. and does he look down at the candy and here the devastation is quite extraordinary. i will let brian show you all of this. you talk about all the multimillion dollar homes in the palisades i could tell you this and i know this very well from personal experience. these are small homes. a lot of them are

apartments and very small homes. and a lot of people they move here they sacrificed to have a small apartment or a very small home because they want their kids to have the chance to go to pali charter high school which is a very good school by l.a. standards. so these are not millionaires we are talking about these people who work hard, these are ordinary -- ordinary americans, trace, and they like so many people in the pacific palisades of lost everything. >> trace: earlier jonathan why don't you stand by because earlier we did a little walk and talk and showing people some homes and neighbors that got very lucky watch this. when you look around the pacific palisades we have been covering disasters for 38 years and when you get to is seen the first thing that tv news crews always do is they look for the hardest hit areas so they can show people the extent of the damage. look at the palisades. this is block after block. house after house street

after street block after block looks just like this. i mean i would estimate that 60% of this town is absolutely gone to. and there was no exceptions. except for one. it is this bizarre anomaly where you walk around here and you see we have a car coming care you see this one house right here i made a blocks and blocks of destroyed homes, we can't find a burn mark on this house. not a single burn mark. so in these neighborhoods we found one here we walked around block after block and everything is devastated except one home is standing here. as you look across the street tommy he pointed over and see flames across the way. smoke was billowing up. a good sign here is that the wind has died down significantly which means that that fire and those flames are going to be held in check for at least the next few hours we are told. on the wind might a leg up and picked up again tonight. but as you go up the

street you go down the hill up the street and down towards the ocean and looks the very same. it looks like this looks like you have fireplaces that are standing at the middle of nowhere surrounded by rubble. surrounded by people's lives and their memories. and we see this again and again not just in the palisades but also in altadena and the pasadena area, and the eaton fire. they are saying this is the most devastating incident, natural tragedy that los angeles county has endured in many years. i'm trace gallagher i will see you back here on fox news that night until then prey for the people here and we will see you tonight. ♪ ♪