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. ♪ ♪

>> hello. it is a 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." the nightmare in california and is not over. three major fires continue to burn. president biden just getting briefed on it. let's listen to that. >> let me close with the message. we are with you. we are not going anywhere. to the firefighters and the first responders, you are heroes. many are out there risking their lives and while their own homes are in danger, their families are in danger. two of the firefighters and first responders, you are heroes, you are genuinely he heroes. >> matt is live in california.

what can you tell us? >> i spoke with you guys yesterday from the palisades. right now, i am 2225 miles inland from the palisades. this gives you an idea of the scope and how widespread the destruction is across l.a. county. more devastation, homes, businesses, cars wiped out. the area we are in right now has been blocked off from the public. police say you should have a legal or righteous reason to be here otherwise they are trying to prevent looting and look you lose. you can see more destruction, businesses obliterated and up in the distance we are at the base

of the san gabriel mountains. there are more fires burning up there and that is spewing more ash and debris down into this town. i spoke to one or two people who live here. they said they have never seen this type of destruction. one woman is trying to find family pictures. here is more of my interview with that woman. >> this community means so much to so many of us. a lot of us purchased our parents' home and properties and still live there. it is devastating. there is no more emotion, just kind of existing. >> five people confirmed here in this area. >> thank you and stay safe. los angeles continues to face criticism as she is on the other side of the globe as her city continues to burn.

the mayor looking stone-faced on her way back and she ignored repeated questions about whether she owed an apology to her citizens, and then made matters worse, struggling at a press conference to give folks the simple name of a website. >> if you need help, resources, and shelter is available. all of this can be found at url. >> another chance to improve her leadership, things got tense. she danced around questions why she went awol when her city needed her the most. >> what explains this lack of preparation and rapid response? >> my number one focus on the focus of all of us here with one voice is that we have to protect lives, save lives, and we have to save homes. rest assured that -- let me

finish. when that is done, when we are safe, when lives have been saved and homes have been saved. >> do you think your leadership was effective while responding to this disaster. >> i just said what i believe is the most important thing for us to do now. >> do you have concern about blowing through the reserve before the state and federal money will arrive. >> let me say, as i sit a few minutes ago, our number one priority right now is to save lives, to protect lives, to save homes. >> kennedy, let start with you. >> the pacific palisades very fluid. people are trying to get into the neighborhood. we are hearing about looters. we are seeing videos of people on bikes, maybe they are scoping

out neighborhoods where some homes still stand as they are convinced there will be easy passage and people are desperate to get in and check on their homes. it is difficult to access information. a lot of these neighborhoods, as you can see from the pictures, over the last three days, these neighborhoods are spotty and there are some homes that remain while the next three are burned to the ground. people are trying to look for answers. i said this on your show earlier today, now people are starting to get angry because people are dealing with tragedy. they don't know if they are dealing with loss and we were talking about this, when will people in this region actually make a change? we were talking about george floyd. there is nothing more personal than losing your home, and i'm

losing all of your possessions that you can never get back. social justice is theoretical to a lot of people and something that is not going to occur to them in three weeks or three months, but losing everything hits you so deeply and the way she is so cavalier about this, bordering on incompetent, i think it is offensive, almost criminal. >> you can almost feel the anger. >> if you want an endangered fish, it is the karen bass. everybody thinks you are an idiot who should resign. i think you will see rage in the next couple of years because you cannot fight fire with platitudes, pronouns and politics. you need practical solutions. the people who offer practical solutions were ignored.

you don't fight it with a climate agenda or a political agenda and you hear democrats are in the media criticizing trump and others were speaking out is a tragedy unfolds as if they don't do it during every mass shooting, but here is the difference. you can speak out if you were warning people years before. trump was talking about this years ago. he warned democrats that offered them solutions. you can't accuse people of exploiting the political nature of a story if they were giving you advice well before it publicly to help you and what did you do? joe biden called him a climate arsonist. he is offering practical solutions and biden is calling him and arsonist. don't blame this on climate change. that doesn't offer practical

solutions either. it offers you a phony virtue signal so you don't have to think about it. how does banning fossil fuels going to affect fossil fuels? i watched past video of trump talking about wildfires and biden. it is a textbook contract of liberalism. platitudes versus practicality. trump empathized action, clearing out a dried forest. biden called trump a climate arsonist. you have a practical response versus an emotional response and emotional responses can work when things are fine. you can do dei until the cows come home but in a crisis, you need adults with practical solutions and people are like

shouting dei this and that. don't blame them for that. the people shouting at first were the people doing it. they advertised this was a priority. they shouted it from the rooftops. look who we are hiring. this is a priority. you can't get that virtue signal reward and when people call you want to go, all my god, that is racist. we are in a crisis of competence because we downgraded competence were complexion and sexual identity. it is happening all over. you are going to see a state filled with rage when people realize they can't rebuild. there is no way, because the people in charge, also dei related, low outlet them. >> climate change can't be a get out of jail free card. >> no one is talking about climate change anymore.

she is still being treated like a baby. imagine if desantis had been in italy and missed this hurricane that wrecked florida and they work unprepared and he flew back days later and was like, we are going to wait a couple months for an assessment. completely unacceptable and for some reason she is getting away with this. she was sent to africa by joe biden and she knew the santa ana winds were coming. she knows they stoke the fire. it happens every year and she still went. and she is not cut out for this job. it is so obvious she is not a real leader and now you have no water in the fire hydrant and people are using garden hoses. i saw a guy pouring milk onto his fire. it is unacceptable. it is dei and corruption. the last three people that ran this utility in l.a., one was a dei hire who was fired because

she was an idiot. the other was caught taking bribes and is in prison. the other one lost $40 million. while all of these people are focused on pronouns, tissue can't eat and scrubbing white people from the fire department, they can't even focus on water and fire and human life. that is how pathetic this is. this is the wealthiest, most powerful state, almost in the country and they can't deliver basic human services and you are right about liberals finally waking up to this. inflation did not affect them. crime doesn't affect them, but when your house burns down and you have to rebuild it and you can't, that might wake them up. >> this is my first time being on tv since this happened. i feel heartbroken for everyone in california who is affected.

my sister lives there and has luckily not had to be evacuated. it is a terrible tragedy. i hate to see how this has played out on top of that, from how karen bass behaved on the tarmac, not even being able to respond to the reporter questions. it is the easiest thing for a public servant to say i am heartbroken for the people of my city. you don't have to say this is my fault or i shouldn't have gotten on that plane. it feels like a normal first response you can have in the press conference was not much better. but to the point about this is because of dei are what we need as practical solutions, there is so much bad information swirling around about the main players involved in this, like the fire chief.

i would take her resume any day, 24 year vet, captain, battalion chief. she is qualified. >> dei makes everybody suspect. you paraded it around and they put it in people's heads. >> you put it in people's heads. >> anyway, there is also, which i think is the most damaging story is that there were $17 million cut from the fire budget and that is inaccurate. the budget had an extra $17 million because they bought one off expenses. respiratory protection for firefighters. they're not in the new budget because they get bought once every seven years. an additional $1 million was set aside and that was not finished. there will be more money in the fire budget next year.

in terms of water -- >> what about the letter, complaining about the money? >> people have gone through the budget versus the article. apparently all 114 tanks were full of water that supplies so the water infrastructure. >> i don't believe that. >> i am saying the "los angeles times" is reporting these things. >> why did they run out of water? >> there was a pressure issue. >> i do not believe the woman who runs this because the reservoirs were empty, the fire hydrants were dry, the hoses were dry and the tanker trucks were not there. it is a lie and they are saying this to cover while everything burned and joe biden is talking about c-130s. where were they on tuesday afternoon? >> it doesn't change the fact

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>> trump and gavin newsom trading shots on who is to blame and who is politicizing what over the wildfires that have ravaged the golden state. watch. >> i have been trying to get gavin newsom to let lauder come. they are trying to protect a tiny little fish. >> he is not the only person calling him out. >> talking to the president right now to specifically answer the question of what we can do for you and your daughter. >> i don't believe it. why was there no water in the hydrants? >> that woman speaks for so many. there is so much frustration there. they are angry at karen bass in this governor who has had a long time to fix these problems that they have said they predicted them, they could have predicted them. >> gavin newsom basically has

the run of government out there so if you wanted to put points on the board and get things done, you could have and you had the local might to tell the environmentalist to pound sand, we are not going to leave handling, we are going to clear the brush and fill the reservoirs. there are a lot of things he could have done. imagine if ron desantis were the governor of california, even for a year, the things that might be different today and her being willing to go up to him and gavin newsom being willing to talk to her unlike karen bass who was dumbfounded and couldn't come up with i'm sorry. what was she doing? watching the flight map? >> she said she was on the ph phone. >> this is also something, there is the short term problem but

there is a longer-term problem. there is a reckoning coming and one of the exciting things for people that want to regroup and have better environmental land conversation plan policies going for, with the new administration, you have different people who will be there in one of them is doug from north dakota who understands these issues and brooke rawlins, they oversee forests. you will see a concentrated effort to make sure this doesn't happen again. we are at the tipping point of understanding the scope and scale of this disaster. >> that was one woman. >> of the schools have literally burned down. obviously you are from california, gavin newsom has had a lot of time to fix these things but he doesn't want to

because they are not. he is more interested in virtue signaling and talking about things that feel good and make him seem like a good person as opposed to tackling things he is not going to get a lot of credit for that take more work but will help the health of the state should he resign. >> i find these strongest anticommunists were once communist. the most persuasive republicans are usually an ex-democrat burned by their policies. look at the transfer movement. you look at the most interesting republicans we have now, they are canceled democrats, so the most powerful agent for change is the person burned by their own beliefs and you will see that. the reaction to the fires in

l.a. mirrored the reaction to crime in new york. it is where the public realizes there is no help coming. we talked about crime for years and nobody listens. we had a governor who went on the subway and said how safe it is and days later a woman was set on fire. it took a woman and flames to get people to realize platitudes won't save you and it is doing that right here. lastly, i was just thinking about this, so many people are homeless. there are thousands of homeless people. i don't think any of them will be sleeping on the streets. why not? what is the difference? >> the money is allocated toward something that hasn't gotten better. it has gotten worse. >> people who are homeless are not going to be on the street so why are the homeless on the

streets. there is something about the lifestyle. if you have a network of people around you and haven't cut yourself off from the world, you will find a place. >> their anger has to go somewhere. why shouldn't it go to the governor? >> it should. he wasn't trying to turn his back on her. in the post-french laundry world understands that you need to do constituent relations better and be a public face for. i think he is the public face then he is good at optics but when he says things like we are going to leave the water to the local folks, it is a state is issue. i am not here to say everything has gone perfectly.

$52 billion probably to repair this. i hope it is only five who have passed away but we don't know. it's not because i am pollyanna or i cannot take it. i don't see why it is worthwhile for trump to be calling him gavin newscum. if biden had shown up and say you could lose a few pounds, those lips are doing a lot of work down there, how tall are you, really? greasy gavin, he is making fun of him. >> you are so obsessed with talk and not action. >> i am making a point. >> nobody cares about name-calling.

>> actually some people do. >> of the state is on fire and you are saying they have water. >> the tanks were full. there was a pressure problem. the governor should not have to put a fact-check on his site that says trump is comparing two different things. no such thing exists. it is fiction. why can't trump take the mandate he got. a lot of left-leaning people voted for him. >> let's hear from jesse jesse watters. >> i have press releases from the state, from the doj, california sues to block water rules. they are trying to save the water from the north to the south and they are suing them to

stop it because of a fish that no one eats. that is all we are staying. >> that is not all you are saying. >> he is sitting there with his hands in his pockets and you are bringing up the homeless. there is a good chance the home or start of this fire. 54% of the fires that they respond to or started by the homeless. we are spending more money on the homeless. this guy is a bad executive and he wants to run for president and he has no army behind him. jeff's basals is gone, zuckerberg is at mar-a-lago. who was going to stand with newsom while everything is burnt to a crisp. nobody. >> not his billionaire donors who used to have homes. this hurts his legacy and i don't think he rebounds. >> who ever smelt it dealt it. >> with that logic, we move on.

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>> they couldn't beat him, now they have to seat him. donald trump and for other presidents making an appearance at jimmy carter's funeral. trump and barack obama chatting like little schoolgirls. trump also strolling past justin castro.

but it wasn't just the orange menace that got a frosty reception. they completely ignored each other while sitting side- side-by-side. you were covering this today. it is pretty surreal to see them in the room with one guy they claimed was an existential threat to democracy. how do they feel safe around h him? >> behind the scenes, as we were watching, i said, what is that like to to hitler? one, it is clear they didn't actually believe that. i think there are rumors or the gossip about dr. jill and kamala harris not having good relations is very true. you can tell by their body language. this transition is going on way too long. you hear the couples that get divorced but they can't actually

afford to move out, so one moves to the basement and one lives upstairs and they share the kitchen and it is tenth all the time. that is how i felt watching that. uncomfortable. >> it was a lot of discomfort. it looked like kamala harris did not seem pleased. was it that barack obama was talking to trump or that dog was texting the nanny? >> doug was talking to melania trump. she and barack use to be very close. he was ignoring her and talking to donald. everybody wants to talk to him. dana can attest to this, it is a small, exclusive fraternity and the fact that he won the popular vote means he is legitimized and welcomed into the d.c.

establishment country club. there is a frosty relationship between dr. jill and vice president harris. it has not gotten better. it has been documented in "the wall street journal" has done extensive reporting on this. dr. joe mocked her when she's that i want the holidays to be filled with peace and joy. don't read too much into that because she knows, low's watchword is joy. it was nice of them to come together and honor the life of former president jimmy carter. >> a day or so ago he announced he had a great-grandchild at the fire crisis press conference. shouldn't we be grateful he didn't do a gender revealed during the eulogy? >> come but i guess that baby is a boy and a girl from the press

conference. >> i thought at first he said it was a boy in girl but it was a -- i am wasting my time. i liked seeing this. this made me feel like there is some hope for us and everyone can sit next to each other and honor the legacy of jimmy carter. my two favorite moments, definitely doing the tell me on obama, showing camaraderie between them and the most interesting person to me was karen pentz, who would not look at trump. if you think my husband should have been hanged for certifying the election results, i have no time for you. >> interesting. could this be jimmy carter's greatest achievement? he was able to bring

hillary clinton into the room with actual presidents and having to sit there feet away from donald trump who destroyed her career, ruin her legacy, humiliated her in front of millions. is he one of the greatest presidents ever? >> in my book he went up a few. don't call it a tommy pat. that makes it sound homoerotic. it was just a borrow tap. >> of the scandal no one is talking about is where is michelle? she should have been there. she is a first lady. apparently she had a scheduling conflict and she was in hawaii. she was on vacation in hawaii. president dies, everybody shows up and she doesn't break her vacation. something is going on.

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>> liberal comedians are snapping out of their comedy, dodging the obvious punch lines. to keep up the narrative that joe's brain was fine. big names now admitting they were pressured to tow the liberal line and only mock republicans. >> it was so important and may be because it was a short election that people were light, don't criticize her, that is bad. hindsight, a lot of people feel that way. >> i finally just broke. i think if you love your party, you have to be able to criticize

that. >> is this too little, too late? >> i always say welcome to the club. they act like they had bosses telling them what not to say. you are comedians, you don't have a boss. there is no policing of your language. i know a lot of comedians who did not wait until now to make jokes about the administration or about trans delusions or anything. they didn't just didn't just lose work, they lost friends. what they are saying is true. it was true for everyone. some chose to be brave and others did not. i am going to read the list of people that braved what those people were talking about but

did not talk about. michael, kant, mackey, joe mackey, jim norton, jim florentine, these guys are also selling out clubs because they had the balls to tell the truth. think about it. >> if they didn't sell sensor, what do you think someone would do? >> judge at patel. >> there are a few powerful agents and directors who have deals all over town, global deal and you are not going to get a piece of any visit or get cast in their project if you run afoul of the group think. they know it and all comedic actors know it and they have been in lockstep for it. when you combine that with power and politics, it is in movable

and people are too terrified for their livelihoods because it is a feast or famine business. they will fall in line if they want to work. >> it is like telling a tight and he can only throw to the dash tell a quarterback you can only throw to the tight end. >> i think it is funny, i don't being -- don't mind being made fun of. but i think there are a lot of great liberal comedians who have been able to do this. bill burrell will destroy the party but will make sure he comes out in defense of the principal that makes him a strong democrat and dave chappelle does the same thing. >> does this mean we can go back to making ethnicokes? >> i always tell them in the

green room. >> democracy dies in darkness but it thrives with comedy. you need satire and you need to be able to ridicule your politicians. if you are a good sport you might be able to say, maybe they have a point or at least understand what people are thinking. i am for all of this. bring it back. >> not the ethnic jokes, just the other stuff. firefighters battled devastating wildfires mla.

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>> thousands of homes destroyed or damaged in the california wildfires. let's go to jonathan hunt. >> it is an extraordinary seem. i want to show you what was the methodist church here, the community methodist church, you can see the tower, the remains of it still standing there. i want to point out the back end of this was a preschool, one of several schools here from which children were evacuated, suddenly, terrifyingly, as the flames ripped through here.

the main business district of the palisades, you can see the extent of the devastation. there are a couple of building still standing but as you look around, hundreds of families have lost everything. hundreds of families went through a terrifying experience and have come home to find they have nothing left of their homes, except the memories they have built up in many ways and many instances here are over decades. it is that kind of community. so many people tonight have nothing left. >> thank you, jonathan. "one more thing" is coming up next.

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♪ >> dana: time now for "one more thing." greg? >> greg: thank you, dana. i hope i see you later and i will. tonight at 10:00 p.m. dana perino, jamie lissow. kat timpf, tyrus. that's an all-star panel. take that, bret baier. let's do this. ♪ animals are great ♪ animals are great ♪ animals are great >> greg: look at that i e i owna frenchie. zoomys like never believe. look at this dog has zoomies and can't stop. has to keep going from side to side. putting its head out of the window it. must have been quite an experience for the driver. either that or it's two dogs. one dog. police in missouri help save an escaped spider monkey. sporting a pink tutu.

finally warmed up to his rescue crew and even held hands with the sheriff. so, perino on politics i askll the dumb questions you ever wanted to know about crypto. up now. jesse? >> jesse: you are a surfer, right, kennedy? >> jesse: watch this right here. monster 108 tall wave. >> dana: maverick. >> jesse: exactly. alex an degree smashing the world record by more than 20 feet. look at that. 40 miles per hour while climbing down that barrel, kennedy, yeah, baby. tonight, "jesse watters primetime," johnny went to canada to see if they want to become americans. >> what do you have against america? we lo it. >> come on over. >> we have gordon lightfoot. >> we have lori fight foot. >> who is lori lightfoot? >> dana: that's it for us. have a great