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contain the historic palisades fire that has burned 20,000, most destructive fire in los angeles history. at least 10 confirmed dead and 10,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed. >> todd: homes, businesses and other structures left in ashes, now residents are not letting state leaders off the hook with how frustrated they were over the respond. >> that was my daughter's school. i'm not going to hurt him, i promise. can i hear your call, i don't believe it. please tell me what are you going to do with the president right now? >> we're getting resources right now. >> why no water in the hydrants? will it be different next time? >> it has to be, of course. >> what are you going to do with

the hydrants? i would fill them up myself. >> i understand. >> would you do that? >> i would do whatever i can. >> but you're not. >> todd: you are watching "fox and friends first" on friday morning. >> the palisades fire is burning 6% containment, which is different from zero percent yesterday morning. over 20,000 acres have burned and confirmed 10 deaths this morning. the eerie apocalyptic scenes

with sunrise and smoke billowing over the hills and mountains still have five active fires. this is 6 percent contained. national guard is on the ground and in the air. people want answers to questions as to how the fires got out of control. winds have backed down that fuelled the fire. they did surge last night with 30 and 40 mile per hour wind gusts and that is activated some pockets. los angeles county fire chief says we're not out of the woods right now, let's listen to what

she says. >> i want to thank the residents of los angeles for remaining vigilent and new fire shows we are not out of this extreme weather event. >> well, they're right about that. we're not out by any means. the winds won't be hurricane source, 70 to 100 miles per hour, they will charge up again. more resources have been brought in to fight the fires. this wide shot here of a structure on the pacific ocean in malibu, all you see is crumbled and sideways tilted steel beams. many homes and businesses up and down the pch are destroyed. when the light comes up, we'll show you the visuals more. the smell of smoke permeates

hills and mountains and sufrf oceanside. palisades in the mountains and hills, neighborhoods devastated, lives taken and many are injured and want answers to questions in the state of california. back to you. >> carley: and images like what you are standing in front of can be seen across 30,000 acres in southern california. robert ray, thank you. karen bas and gavin newsom are facing increasing criticism over their respond from the fires, including from donald trump. >> todd: madeleine rivera joins us. >> madeleine: l.a. mayor karen bass is on defense, she was out of the country when the fire spread on tuesday. she had traveled to gony for inauguration of the new president and did not come back

until tuesday. she was peppered from questions about the city's respond. >> we did not see a single fire engine. we watched as good sas mayor tans guided traffic. there was fear and a lot of confusion. you were out of the country at the time. what explains this lack of preparation and upon raid respond? >> let me say first and foremost, my number one focus and focus of all of us here with one voice is we have to protect lives. we have to save lives and we have to save homes. rest assured -- >> that did not happen. >> rest assured, let me finish. when that is done, when we are safe, lives have been saved and homes have been saved, we will do an eshg valuation to look at what worked, what didn't work and to correct or hold accountable anybody, department,

individual, events events. >> madeleine: bass was asked about a cut to the fire department, which the chief had warned. bass says the budget did not impact the trouble the last few days. president trump had harsh words for bass and gavin newsom. >> i think gavin newsom is largely incompetent and the mayor is incompetent and both of them are stone-cold incompetent. >> madeleine: newsom is accusing trump of playing politics, he and bass will have a lot of questions to answer from frustrated people. >> todd: bring in former california congressianal can dane idate.

what does this say about her ability to lead the great city of los angeles through to the other side of this catastrophe? >> it is absolutely unacceptable. when she campaigned, she talked about all of her experience, that has been failed policy. people know that california consistently has fires and to not be properly prepared to cut funding of nearly 18 million dollars has -- we have seen ramifications of that right now as we see l.a. county being burned to the ground and families devastated watching their homes go ablaze and not knowing what to do next. >> carley: california lawmakers yesterday in assembly gavelled into a special session to help the state prepare for legal

battles with incoming trump administration. a bill to get 25 million to the california doj and there will be a budget hearing next monday. they couldn't even hit pause and refocus on the same week 10,000 structures burned, lives lost, they are trying to trump-proof the state instead of fire-proof it. >> exactly. what makes me angry, we should have been prepared for this. in half a century now, we've not built water infrastructure here in california since 1977. we have been trying to push to build this water infrastructure so when there are crisis such as what is happening in l.a. right now we would have ability to mitigate these fires. we can't stop fires from happening, but we can mitigate them. liberal politicians have failed to do that consistently.

weep are seeing the ramifications of them putting politics in front of policies that should be helping us in california. >> todd: trump questioning if l.a. residents should return when wildfires end. listen. >> we're talking about homes that caused 400 million dlsz, i don't know that they ever go back, either. they were not happy with california or gavin newsom. they were not happy with their whole lifestyle with crime out of control and other problems, they were not happy. it will be interesting to see whether or not they are going to build. >> todd: in light of what trump said, do people rebuild or leave for good? >> i think there will be a lot of people exiting california for good. with how the crime through the roof, the homelessness, the consistent see of our elected

officials here that continue to badger our californians here, they will l leave the state, no doubt. >> carley: thank you for joining us. lapd arrested arson suspect in area of kenneth fire. officers say they cannot connect the suspect to this fire at this time. police found the suspect after a group of residents saw him using a blow torch to set old christmas trees and garbage on fire. the group grabbed the man and held him until police arrived, they zip tied him. we have video, wow. fox corporation has made a 1 billion donation to the relief effort. visit go.fox/redfox or scan the qr code on the screen. president-elect trump will appear virtually for assisting in the new york business case.

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zero percent confirmed for eaton fire. winds will die down today through the weekend. i have to advise you, southern california, we have return possible of santa ana winds next week. we need firefighters to get a handle on this because it is so dry and will not take much to spread fire. smoke tracker, respiratory issues will be a huge problem as the fires continue to burn in the burn areas scomb outside of where fires are burning. this will be a big deal, air quality will be very terrible, essentially. look at rain totals. driest on record for los angeles and senate and that is one reason why we have a danger here. looking at upper level pattern, high pressure moves in monday and potential for santa ana

winds to return. huge concern. one more item, we have to move on, huge winter storm impacting south including atlanta, georgia. areas that don't normally see ice and snow and that will be a problem. we need to pay attention to potential for ice, this could are crippling and dangerous. we'll update you. >> carley: now to this, president trump will appear virtually to be assisted in new york versus trump race after supreme court voted not to put off assists. >> brooke: assists is scheduled this morning for falsifying business record. judge judge merchan said he will not give him jail time.

>> i thought it was a fair decision, i will do my little thing tomorrow, they can have fun there political opponent. they acknowledge what the judge said about no penalty and there is no penalty, we'll appeal anyway psychologically because it is a disgrace, a judge that shouldn't have been on the case, highly conflicted judge. >> brooke: a source close to trump's legal team says a new judge was assigned to the civil fraud case brought by leticia james. there was another message saying engeron was reassigned to the case. the appeal is pending. >> todd: raises questions we'll try to answer with lexi rigdon.

trump said he thought it was fair, this means left get what theyun wa, they get to call donald trump convicted felon president. did the supreme court get it right in your opinion? >> they keep saying about these cases, it is unprecedented. if he were a norm al defendant then yes, they got it right. intervene before case is over. in that respect, i'm not surprised by the decision. underpinning of their decision, they said the penalty and burden on him is diminimus, all indications from judge merchan is that he will not assist him. it does not impact his schedule. i find it to be this entire thing has been unfortunate for

office of the president and the american people. democratic senator, fioetterman and it would not have been brought if it weren't donald trump. for office of presidency, it is shame we have 10 days before his inauguration, cherry on top of a flawed prosecution, he will have a judgment and conviction entered against him. i don't necessarily disagree with legality of what supreme court did, is a shame for trump. >> todd: remains to be seen, what is the sentence going to be, in four hours we will find out. you heard brooke singman, something strange happened in trump's civil suit which is on appeal. the engeron was taep off and

replaced by another judge and magically put back. have you ever seen anything like this, lexie? >> no, judge get shifted all the time. you might have a different judge on post-judgement in court. that is pretty common and people get upset when their judge is gone. although in this case donald trump wouldn't be upset. i have not seen them shifted back, it is like a chess board. i have no explanation for that. hope to find out more about what that was about. >> computer error, scheduling snafu, or something bigger to answer what is going on here? we will see. we'll be watching, thank you. one essential aircraft used to respond to palisades fire has been grounded after colliding

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>> todd: back with a fox news alert. los angeles fire department aired an aircraft after it collided with a drone. >> carley: bill melugin joins us now. bill. >> bill: good morning to you. unfortunately updates continue to get worse. l.a. county confirming up to 10 deaths ass result of these catastrophic southern california wildfires. two deaths confirmed in the palisades fire, where at least 5000 structures have been wiped

out. show you where we are on monument street. this street alone, every single house wiped out, not a single one left standing. these homes were multi million dollar homes, every house burned down on both sides of the street. melted cars and power lines down. you see glowing embers and hot spots here despite this fire came through days ago. it is absolute devastation >> you mentioned super scoopers, this is video from last night. one super scooper grounded now because a civilian drone crashed into it at the palisades fire yesterday afternoon as the super scooper was flying and performing operations. i cannot stress how crucial these aircraft are, they are leased from canada, there are only two of them. there are the aircraft dipping

into the pacific ocean, they can drop six tons of water each time, massive help to firefighters. one of them is grounded with wing damage because a civilian was flying a drone out here yesterday, that is a federal crime, the faa is investigating. law enforcement is taking looting out here seriously, we've seen several patrols driving through the area. we've been asked for credentials multiple times. authorities have made a dozen arrests for looting since the fires broke out. >> carley: thank you so much. one building is palisades charter high school, just days before the new term. the school has been featured in films and tv shows is closed indefinitely. two students from palisades

charter high school join me now. good morning to you all, thank you for joining us. what was your reaction when you found out this fire tore through your high school? >> i think it has been a traumatic event from going through covid and now losing our school, it was a learning center and a home. my sister and i are juniors and lilly is a freshman, it is hard to see a place we went to learn, this place was in our daily routine, burned down. staff and everybody on standby. we trusted our community to rebuild our infrastructure and the palisades. we can do it with help of our close family, friends and those that would like to donate. >> carley: do you know the status of your home and what has this week been like for you and your family? >> so far, our home, thank god,

is perfectly fine. we've had issues with looting, we have seen time and time again neighborhoods near us going through terrible, terrible fires and i would just like to say i feel so many sentiments for everyone going through so much. we have privilege our house is still standing at this time. we are on standby and evacuated in a hotel. we are so thankful. >> carley: lilly, you are a freshman, how are you feeling when it comes to all this and all that you are going through? >> i mean, i've only been there a ay semester and school is like a second home, you spend eight hours a home there. it is traumatic to see the school burned to the ground and my friend's homes burning down. it is not just school and place we learn, it is a community and

i hope we can all just come together and help rebuild the place. >> carley: i mentioned the school you go to has been featured in movies and tv shows, "carrie," and "freaky friday" to name a few, do you think it will be rebuilt eventually? >> aur administration has been working closely with students and families there, amazing group of people and we're ana thankful to have an amazing support system that has been up to date with us. there is debris of the fire and us students have not been able to go to campus. we're on our winter break, so i trust in our community and admin to do what is best for us and they are well providing us with

resources to be successful going into second semester. >> carley: you set up rebuild our school, if you want to donate go online and do that. you are wonderful young ladies, i'm sure your parents are proud of you. stay safe and thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> carley: you're welcome. over to you. >> todd: prayers. shocking arrests. a suspected trina member in california in custody with arrests on his wrap sheet in california, colorado and new york. in boston, migrant charged with sex crimes arrested after that sanctuary city refused to keep him locked up. sheriff mark lamb in arizona joins me now. mark, two of the latest examples of why sanctuary cities and states need to be abolished when donald trump takes over. your thoughts, sheriff?

>> 100% and happy new year, great to see you again. this is unacceptable in america that we would let these people commit crimes and send them to the street to commit more crime. we should not be surprised when we see the laken riley act. we are 158 politicians in this country were not willing to say, if you commit a crime and you're here illegally we'll send you back immediately. it appalls me we would have so many that represent americans saying they were not okay with the bill. we should not be surprised to see men like this victimize americans again. >> todd: that said, donald trump is pretty optimistic about what the next four years could mean under his leadership, he's calling it a golden era. listen. we want to get along with

democrats, i'm trying to be nice. new term, great time, i will call it the golden age of america. i have to tell you, you look at the crime, it is all on shoulders of democrats and way they run their states. >> todd: the numbers bear that out, what hes is true. despite their talk of resisting him and you heard sanctuary city mayors and state governors say we're openly going to resist everything donald trump wants to do. do you think trump will get local democrats to play ball? end of the day, their citizens are the ones that will be safer because of it. >> i do. i do think he will get them to come to the table. thering be some that are resistant, many understand there is a mandate by the american people saying we want to fix this problem. president trump understands that and tom homan understands that

as border czar and everybody in a position dealing with what is going on when relates to illegal immigration and crime and gangs, pressure will be too much for these communities. we cannot continue to see sanctuary cities, i hope more will get online, it allows us to work with federal law enforcement and ice. i hope to see that in the near future and hope this government expands that to help president trump and tom homan. >> todd: the laken riley act, there is debate on that act, small step, but a necessary step, hope this shows bipartisanship at federal and state and local level. thank you for your time and insight. so important on this upon toic. california wildfires could cost insurers over 50 billion, that

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cost record 50 pillion. >> todd: cheryl casone has details. >> cheryl: an estimate from accuweather, looking at 57 billion. this is economically devastating along with the loss of life. look back at the maui fires in 2023, estimated lost 14 to 16 billion, we are talking triple the cost of hawaii. couple of things. just palisades fire, 17,000 acres. think of the value of the real estate. n.f.l. has moved the game to glendale stadium. also, look at all the film production shut down. you are looking at potential job losses for hollywood, tourism, the things that go along with a

thriving economy are lost here. insurance piece of this. new york times is reporting 100,000 californians have lost insurance coverage between 2019 and 2024. state farm dropped 70% of their consumer customer policies around santa monica mountains because of fire danger and years of fires that have affected the state. they can go to the fair plan, the state plan, that plan is now likely to be bankrupt and overrun. go back to the insurance companies to make up itthe financial different, that will raise prices on californians. >> todd: they will pass along that loss to everybody. every american, everybody who has a policy will feel it. >> cheryl: there is a great editorial in w"wall street journal" that says california

wildfire insurance catastrophes, the state refused to let insurers do proper pricing for risk. homeowners and taxpayers will pay for this mistake. that is unfortunate. >> carley: statistic about the maui fire, that was devastating and such a massive fire and for this to be triple the amount in damages puts it in perspective. >> cheryl: it does and editorial board points out democrats, everything is climate change, blame always on climate change. the blame here is going to be on politicians, the mayor, the governor and state regulators who have let this happen in the insurance industry and these people that are looking to replace and rebuild are in for a world of hurt. >> carley: we had a guest on earlier in the show who said california has not updated water

infrastructure since 1977. that needs to change. >> todd: in california, los angeles is a desert, you would think they would have worked on that sooner than 1997. don't miss cheryl on mornings with maria. >> carley: there is also this, people trying to profit. 20 looters have been arrested forcing los angeles to take security measures including national guard support and surfew in specific areas. some residents are turning to a private security company. the private security company joins me now. the lengths some people are going to to loot is staggering, what are you seeing right now? >> good morning. we see people trying to improvise to get in wearing uniforms of fire marshal ms and

security companies, wearing vest, looks like people from the power company, trying to get in any way. >> carley: people are not doing this in of coer of darkness, they are dressing up, putting on a fake uniform and trying to go into a house that has been evac evacuated? >> that is correct. they are wearing white helmets, c clipboards, many shapes how to conceal themselves. >> carley: how can you tell the people trying to loot versus utility workers? what do you do? >> so what we do, we are providing private security for neighborhoods. we have 24/7, a zone is two miles, we are doing 24 hours a day going two miles over and

over again. so we know our clients and dog handlers, we know them by name, their cars and everything. if we see someone not supposed to be there, we engage and ask for what they do and we can figure out, it is body language. when they see our vehicle with lights on, they are moving away. >> carley: who are these people trying to loot? member of gangs, petty thieves, what do you think? >> when we start services, especially in palisades, doing palisades, beverly hills and hollywood hills. when we started year and a half ago, a lot of burglary started. they used to call it from people from south america, very professional people. used to come team of four to six people, they use even drones to

see if anybody in the house, they use jammers to jam wifi, for ring cameras and others. they got in and out within a few minutes. those people made it very profitable for the last year. since we moved into the private neighborhoods and again, open neighborhood, we hold strong streets and we got no burglaries since we took over those neighborhoods. >> carley: unbelievable. really quickly, when you do see somebody doing something s suspicious, do you apprehend them, call police? how do you handle it? >> few things. as of now, we cannot bother lapd, this is amazing group of people and fire department and they are working so hard, it is impossible for them to come

arrest someone. we have our own way to make sure that people will get the message and they basically leave. 99% people have engagement with officers, they are armed and fully stocked with bullet-proof vest and everything. it is basically they are making people that we detain, we send them away outside of territories, our responsibility is for protection of our clients. last 72 hours, we are fighting fires, we have fire equipment also, tankers. >> carley: that is remarkable. wow. we have to leave it there. we're out of time, you are providing a valuable service, both looting and firefighting, we understand why people would

want to hire your company. thank you for joining us, unfortunate you have to do what you are doing, that is reality of the situation. thank you. steve doocy will look at what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> steve: carley, yes, indeed. on friday edition of "fox and friends" nine minutes and 34 seconds from now, we'll have continuing coverage out of the wildfire situation in southern california. speaking to first responders, locals and community leaders on the ground. the destruction prompting other states to send resources, including from as far away as florida. governor desantis will join us to tell us how florida is helping the golden state. and controversial move insurance companies made months before the inferno, can you imagine, you thought you were covered and you weren't. this morning, waiting to hear about donald trump sentencing in

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>> carley: the los angeles fires slashed by over $17 million. but l.a. city mayor karen bass says it's had no impact on the wildfire response. >> go back and look at the reductions that were made, there were no reductions that were made that would have impacteed situation we were dealing with the last couple of days. we were in tough budgetary times. everybody knew that but that the impact of our budget really did not impact what we have been going through. >> todd: mayor bass is going to be holding another press conference at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. john knox who you see on your screen right now a former los angeles firefighter who was fired after failing to get the covid vaccine he joins us now. you heard the mayor say that budget reductions did not impact

los angeles' fire fighting capabilities. is that true? >> >> i'm going to gree disagree wh that wholehearted buy. the budget was tut by 20 million last year. another 40 or $50 million they are trying to cut. it's caused a lot of issues in regards to staffing issues lack of apparatus. lack of testing. all kinds of things that are happening inside of this city. >> carley: so 86 l.a. city employees were terminated over the covid-19 vaccine mandate you were one of them. when you see this fire and think about what you went through, what goes through your head? >> it's really frustrating, you know. to be terminated over standing up for your civil rights and being a 23-year veteran employee

of the fire service for the los angeles city. everything i have done has been to serve the citizens. and, you know, i have been on the ground in the palisades. i was there yesterday and in malibu. it was devastating to see what's happening. and it all stems from a lack of true leadership. >> todd: john, bluntly put, would these fires have been as catastrophic, you and those other 85 colleagues had not been fired because you refused to take the covid vaccine? >> well, i wish that were the case. it actually there was five individuals finally ended up getting terminated. originally there was 160 that were put off. but in the end, they ended up terminating five. they still have two more at this point that they are still looking at terminating. >> carley: were you surprised to learn that firefighters ran out of water? >> that's surprising, yeah. in my career i have never seen us, you know, have every once in ha while you might have a dry

hydrant. you know, we do annual testing in january where we test all the fire hydrants. that didn't happen this year. that area has a very large reservoir with four huge tanks that are supposed to be filled at all times. it's my understanding, also, that they had one of them that's been out for maintenance for a year during peak brush season. there are a lot of questions that need to be asked by the people to get answers from these so-called leaders. >> todd: not the least of which was why was not more staging done when you get high wind warning. fire department is supposed to stage fire vehicles throughout the vehicle according to what i read from your point of view before that was not done. john knox. thank you. "fox & friends" begins right now. >> steve: good friday morning, everybody. fox news alert. we start wit