work at this urban wild land interface to build out defensible space and eliminate fuel sources to help prevent or at least mitigate the cost of the next palisades and eaton fire. >> dana: we have 30 seconds. what is the most needed item? cash, supplies, people, volunteers? what do you need the most? >> i think this is a really complex and fluid disaster. cash tends to be king. we don't know how these needs will play out. sheltering obviously is big, food is big. but we have to replace a lot of material possession, have to relocate these children into new school districts and we'll need flexibility. >> dana: we talked to a guy last hour that lost everything including as a small business owner in construction lost all the tools. rebuilding to be done but needs to be resupplied.

you are always there team rubicon. thank you for coming on the show. thank you. take care, jake. fox news alert. critical warning of extreme fire danger. los angeles county and ventura county now under the highest level threat warning. treacherous santa ana winds returning whipping up dangerous weather as crews battle to contain existing wildfires. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: here we go again watching the hour, watching the forecast and the wind. i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home. you have critical weather conditions potentially fueling yet again the growth of new and existing fires. national weather service issued red flag warnings destructive and life threatening off shore winds picking up from today through wednesday thus far this week. >> dana: security is high in the affected fire zones. law enforcement making dozens of arrested for us a sected looting. l.a. county sheriff with a stern warning for anyone trying to take advantage of this ongoing

disaster. >> regarding any illegal activity that may be occurring in these areas. don't do it. the fact that anyone takes advantage of anyone who has been victimized already whether it's burglary, looting or any other crime, whether it's a scam of some kind that you are con jarring up to make money off the poor people involved in this. >> dana: griff jenkins is live in malibu. the sun is up. what do you see, griff? >> well, dana, i see widespread damage and destruction. charred remains of homes and buildings. you mentioned the looting there. there were four more arrests yesterday bringing the total number of looters to 39 in the malibu and pacific palisades area. let's look at this sun coming up here. whoever lived in these homes must have woken up every day and said i have it made. i have everything. well today they have nothing. you can see the steel i-beams

and foundation is rubble. it goes for miles up the iconic beautiful pacific coast. you can see burned out s.u.v. another car there . it comes with this warning from the national weather service particularly dangerous situation. the pds warning is the highest the agency can issue intended to invoke the highest level of urgency for residents to evacuate if indeed these brush fires that firefighters are trying to tamp down with these high winds of 70 miles-per-hour for the next possible 48 hours. we talked to a captain with the l.a. fire department eric scott. here is what he said about the dangers people are facing. listen here. >> this just stirs up all of the other embers because things are still burning. it is still active. and it is so dry because of these winds that the brush or fuel if an ember lands on it has a 65% ignition. we are chasing fires.

>> back out here in malibu there is nothing left to burn here. the fire palisades fire came across the hills and burned everything in its path until it met the pacific ocean. we'll show you an image here in malibu yesterday, sheriff luna who played the sound bite saw a firefighter in distress. turned out it was an individual who was not a fireman and he was arrested. you can't be in this area. another incident. i want to show you this video of a man that was found with a blow torch. sources confirming to fox he was an illegal immigrant from mexico and being held on probation, not charged with arson but complicating the issue, as you can see trucks, emergency fire trucks and crews trying to come in here trying to do their work all a part of the complex situation with this high red flag warning on its way as we expect a press conference from mayor bass in the next hour.

>> thank you so much. our next guest is promising looters will be prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law. nathan hochman is the newly elected l.a. d.a. how can you make it clear that looters will be prosecuted? are you able to expedite some sort of hearing so it can stop? >> that's exactly what we intend to do. we have sent an unmistakably clear warning to looters, people engaged in trying to scam people suffering from the tragedies to people even thinking about arson. if they want to engage in these crimes they will be arrested, prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law. at 2:00 p.m. today, los angeles time we are going to announce charges being filed against certain looters, against an arsonist, and when the public hears and when would be criminals hear the types of punishments they are facing,

they will think twice about committing these crimes. >> dana: can i ask one thing? maybe you aren't able to say. on charges against an arsonist. do you think that person was responsible for any of these fires? >> no. the person who will be charged was not responsible for any of the large fires that have taken lives. but was effectively looking at the opportunity at this as an opportunity to set off fires. which is again incredibly dangerous and will be even more dangerous as these red flag warning winds come through los angeles over the next several days. >> bill: some of this water is under the bridge. look to the future and how to best help the folks trying to recover. we were with a guy last hour lives in altadena. he was shattered. here is jd vance talking about what needs to be done. >> there was a serious lack of competent governance in california. i think it is part of the reason why these fires have gotten so bad. we need to do a better job at

the state and federal level. >> bill: what can you do now knowing that all that is behind you and you are dealing with all that dust and ash, nathan? >> so what we can do, in fact i'm one of the people who has been evacuated. my sister lost her house in pacific palisades. what we'll do is first deal with people who are looting, people who are taking advantage of this with crimes right now. then we begin the recovery effort. sadly, we'll have people who want to take advantage of the recovery money coming in from insurance or government benefits. we're sending the same unmistakably clear message to them. if they want to rip off people who suffered these type of tragedies we'll come after you and throw the entire book at you. so please do not commit these crimes. our goal is to deter them in the first place. thus saving a lot of victims in the process. >> dana: you are newly elected. do you have the resources you

need in your office to take on the task? >> 750 assistant district attorneys. some of the finest prosecutors in the nation. they're motivated and inspired to go ahead and help people. they always have been. they haven't had the opportunity over the last several years but they are all fired up right now to go help the residents of l.a. county get through this tragedy and make sure that the criminals who want to take advantage of them meet full justice in the system. >> bill: what do you think went on here? was it just a confluence of events of mother nature that could not be overcome? or is the empty fire hydrants and reservoir that holds 100 million of gallons of water that wasn't working. what is it? >> they'll look into the causes of the various -- whether it is arson or manmade. they will be looking into the efforts -- initial efforts to try to put out these fires, to figure out if los angeles was

prepared for it. ultimately when we do do the rebuild, los angeles has shown a history over decades of not only rebuilding but rebuilding better than ever. we will be participating in that effort. >> bill: okay. >> dana: nathan hochman, you are new to the job. looks like you are up to the job. we appreciate you coming on the show. >> bill: need a lot of help. >> my pleasure, thank you very much. >> dana: to help those affected by the california wildfires go to go.fox/red cross. you can see it right there. >> bill: we go now to washington. special counsel jack smith resigning from his post in an expected move. infamous report on president-elect trump remains in legal limbo. david spunt is watching the movement at the department of justice as to what goes down next. david, good morning. >> good morning. after a two-year high profile investigation jack smith left the department of justice friday

not with any grand fanfare but just mentioned in a footnote of a court filing that came out on the public docket on saturday. i want to read it to you. the special counsel pleated his work and separated from the department on january 10th. as for smith's report it is separated to two volume. volume one is the the report on 2020 election interference of trump. volume two is a report on trump's mishandling of classified documents taken to mar-a-lago. merrick garland will release only volume one of the public. the two is co-defendants. garland won't tip the scales of justice. they said this about the raid on mar-a-lago. >> we always try to pursue the least intrusive means. first trying to get the information back voluntarily, then with a subpoena, and only

if after all that we learn that the agents haven't been given all of the classified material and in fact those efforts have been frustrated or obstructed or our agents are left with no choice but to go to a federal judge. >> he said that's what happened in this case. the fight over releasing volume one continues. judge cannon in florida originally put a three-day hold on that report. it expired over the weekend. a d.o.j. rule which putst into a business day. expire today unless the court of appeals rules to release it. the garland d.o.j. is history as of january 20th at noon. it is possible this report does not come out at all during this d.o.j. and may have to come out via of freedom of information request. >> bill: keep you posted and we'll follow the bouncing ball then. david spunt, d.o.j. >> the biden administration would call up our team and

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>> bill: big changes coming to the migrant shelter system in the commonwealth of massachusetts. that state's democratic governor announced that all public facilities will be inspected. policies reviewed. this after a major bust involving guns and drugs. molly line based out of boston with us in new york with more on this. good morning to you. >> yes. so remember the massachusetts governor pushed back pub pickly against trump's plans deportation. she insists her state is not a sanctuary state and hopes that the incoming president takes action on reforms. her words came friday morning a week after an illegal immigrant from the dominican republic living in a hotel shelter in revere, massachusetts was found with ten pounds of fentanyl and ar-15. sanchez, 28, now faces federal drug and weapons charges. the high profile case launched a review of intake procedures at state shelters.

her administration confessed criminal background checks weren't being performed on shelter residents after an alleged rape of a teenage girl at a hotel shelter last march. lamenting federal inaction the governor is also calling for federal action from president trump. >> it's not fair that states have to foot the bill for this. that taxpayers have to foot the bill for this and we're strained and burdened in the way we are. i hope president trump takes action and i who app that both the house and representatives and the senate work with the president on those changes. >> massachusetts republican party chair accused the governor of mismanaging the crisis. the fact that the governor only now feels compelled to act after the horrors have come to light is despicable. ice boston has arrested more than two dozen men, illegal immigrants in massachusetts accused of sex crimes. it was in november that healey vowed to absolutely not

cooperate with trump's deportation efforts. bill. >> bill: wow, it could develop in a very interesting way in the weeks ahead. >> dana: i'm sure people want relief. great to sigh. thank you. nice to see you in person. >> they pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly were true, right? they pushed us and said, you know, anything that says that vaccines might have side effects. you basically need to take down. and i was just like we're not going to do that. >> who is they? who is telling you the take down things and talk about vaccine side effect? >> people in the biden administration. these people from the biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and curse. >> dana: meta ceo mark zuckerberg detailing some of the biden administration's efforts to censor certain information on the height of the covid

pandemic. he talked a little bit about it in congress. now he is going on rogan and meta is saying we'll make a lot of change quickly. what else do you think he should do? >> first of all, i look at him the way ronald reagan looked at the soviet union. trust by verify. great he is a free speech champion. when musk took over twitter he released the twitter files with all internal communications and names of who was doing what. he needs to release the facebook files. he says that they pressured him. who is they? i would like to know the names of the biden administrations officials, which u.s. government officials were pressuring facebook to censor speech on his platform? they resisted and said no way, we're not doing that. prove us, show us the time. the internal memos, the emails, communication showing that they

pressured you and you resisted. i would like to know the evidence. >> dana: the biden administration and biden himself not happy with some of these changes. one of them being that zuckerberg said they will end the fact checking an go to more of a community notes format. here is what biden said about that. >> president biden: want to tell the truth. the idea that, you know, a billionaire can buy something and say by the way from this point on we're not going to fact check anything. you know when you have millions of people reading -- going online reading this stuff, it is -- i think it's really shameful. >> dana: interesting to imagine if the biden-harris team had won again and trump hadn't how some of this stuff would have continued and end up at place where you couldn't correct it. >> 100%. let's not forget. this guy spent $4 hundred million in zuck bucks to get biden get out the vote effort to get biden reelected. i'm perfectly willing to accept

his conversion even though it seems to be a conversion of convenience. but i want proof. i want evidence. if you really have converted, then show us all the evidence. give us all the details of how this all happened and prove that. otherwise, you know, i just don't believe it. >> dana: mark wanted to ask you about this story. christopher wray is the outgoing f.b.i. director. resigned instead of being fired. >> my decision to retire from the f.b.i., i have to till, was one of the hardest decisions i've ever had to make. the president-elect had made clear that he intended to make a change. my conclusion was that the thing that was best for the bureau was to try to do this in an orderly way to not thrust the f.b.i. deeper into the fray. >> dana: kash patel becomes the confirmed f.b.i. director will have his hands full. he whats a lot to fix.

>> i'm glad he was able to make it on 60 minutes. he didn't show up in november in front of the homeland security committee with the global threats hearing. the chairman of the committee said was unprecedented and shameful. a democrat. i'm glad he made time for 60 minutes. he was going to get fired. the fact that he is resigning and this is the hardest decision of his life. it was done. it had nothing to do with him. he presided over an absolute collapse in trust in the f.b.i. when he took over in 20172 years after he took over, the public support for the f.b.i. was at 57%. today it's at 41%. a 16-point collapse. this is a guy who raided donald trump's home in mar-a-lago, who questioned whether he had even been shot. he needs to go. >> dana: the other thing we found out chinese government infiltrating critical

infrastructure. >> happened on his watch. >> dana: a happy birthday to you, marc thiessen. happy birthday. >> thank you. >> bill: well done. back to our top story now. what will change in the california for cast? we're watching it now. strengthening winds again in southern california. large fires leaving a trail of destruction. the images take your breath away. also the wife of an american detained by the taliban hoping to meet donald trump saying president biden gave her the cold shoulder for two years. more on ryan corbett's fight for freedom today. >> what i heard him say he is not bringing ryan home. it was devastating. there is a deal on the table. a way to bring ryan home and it is not being taken. it is incredibly crushing to our family.

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different way. we are a very united family and specifically now it makes you see that at the end of it all, all we have is the memories that we've created as a family because the material stuff is gone. i mean, i was there and it was just gone. now all we have is the memories we created in these places. >> dana: altadena resident speaking to us after losing his home. fire dangers continue flaring up across los angeles. heightening wind speeds are exacerbating the apocalyptic chaos. max gordon whats the latest. >> you feel for people like that interview right there where they've lost absolutely everything. you look at homes just like the one behind me right here and there is simply nothing left. photos, so many memories just gone in flames.

a particularly dangerous situation is about to unfold once again here in southern california. the national weather service warning that winds between 45 to 70 miles-per-hour are expected between early tomorrow morning and into wednesday at noon. the reason why this is so serious is that there are embers, of course, still left in these fire-scarred areas and also the vegetation is just so dry. take a look at this right here. you can just see the dryness of all the grass and vegetation out there on the slopes. if an ember catches one of these bushes it can go up in an instant and spread the flames even further. right here on the palisades fire we have about 13% containment. currently sitting 24,000 acres right now. it was earlier in the weekend making a run toward the neighborhood of brentwood. firefighters there have gotten that line pretty well buttoned up. again with the winds beginning to rise into the evening hours and early tomorrow morning, more

flames are expected. more danger. people being told to pay attention to evacuation maps and get ready to get out when they need to. back to you. >> dana: no time to let their guard down. >> bill: a couple of things to run through right now. video in a moment of the mexican troops who came in from really over the weekend more than 70 of them. more may come and join forces from canada, california has relied on canadian firefighters in the past and doing it yet again in addition to ten other states that have sent troops into california. what they are getting ready for now is not just what happened last week but what may come in the two or three days. pepperdine university, pacific palisades around santa monica mountains. malibu, simi valley, reagan library. if you get winds off the top of those mountains they can kick it and throw it quite a distance. in our studio here. i want to cruise over and check

in with fox weather folks. pardon my back here. they've been working 24/7 on this because of the weather conditions are so dire and really they determine go ahead, jimmy. they dictate the future for this story, unfortunately. we got a bit of a break over the weekend. steven morgan has been here. i don't know if you've slept or not but good morning to you. a break over the weekend. winds calmed down considerably on sunday but things could change quickly yet again. this is the pca where griff jenkins was where all the homes wiped out. >> breathtaking from a completely different perspective. the million dollar views that people get. what we have setting up here, bill, as you mentioned. the off shore winds. santa anas played out a week ago tomorrow. it was a week ago tomorrow those fires started. the palisades fire where we have had more than 5,000 structures damaged or destroyed. the santa ana winds we have setting up for tuesday into wednesday. i heard a lot of people say not going to be as strong but that's

little easing of comfort because of the significance of these winds with fires already burning. 60 to 70 miles-per-hour winds could hamper fire efforts. flames are raging. you are factoring in big winds and why the national weather service issued this particular dangerous situation. the winds strongest and humidity lowest. >> bill: tonight maybe 30 to 40 miles-per-hour. tuesday night seems to be much stronger. is that the worst at the moment? >> that's where it looks where winds could top 60 to 70 miles-per-hour. some of the winds we saw last week when we look at it from a magnitude. 90 to 100 mile-per-hour. we won't see that threshold reached. that was before the fires

started we were looking at the significant windstorm last week. we already have fires burning. containment has been great. a few. the woodley fire, sunset, kenneth, have all been fully contained. they aren't put out but contained. some of these, though, the palisades of note and also in pasadena close to altadena where we've seen so much devastation out of the eaton only 33%. >> bill: what else can burn? you look at the images from palisades and malibu, not much can. if you get winds at a certain capacity they can take embers and throw them like they did last week. >> you don't have to look far. you look at the pacific coast highways and the beach front properties. one of our -- that's a 60 foot jump the flames made. those embers.

officials have said as much as two miles is how far the embers can travel. hurricane-force winds are a possibility and why we have the pds and this land is scorched. we've seen the palisades fire. >> these look like trees you would find in autumn. >> breathtaking when you look how beautiful but then now seeing the devastation we have. bill, there have been so much talk. could a fire ever reach the pacific ocean? could we see it get clear down and realized? previously thinking that would be tough to do. santa ana winds often times occur in the mountains. occasionally you get significant winds reaching the pacific coastline. >> bill: you are here tomorrow and wednesday we'll see what we get then. steven morgan from fox weather. back across to the other side of the room now. >> i think the american people are safer and the country is

better off than we were four years ago and we're handing that off to the next team. that's the legacy and what we're handing off to the next team. >> dana: president biden's foreign policy legacy on the line as he makes his final pitch to americans tonight. plus donald trump's cabinet facing crucial hearings this week. the senator standing between them and final confirmation. >> every one of these cabinet nominees needs to get a fair hearing and we need to get them in place as quickly as possible so president trump can move out.

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>> they need to go through the hearing process. they'll get beat up by the legacy media and left. i think the votes are there. >> bill: senator roger marshall sounding confident.

as president-elect donald trump's cabinet nominees head into a busy week of confirmation hearings. chad pergram is on the hill. busy week. hello to you on monday. good morning. >> good morning. big hearings begin tuesday. pete hegseth to become defense secretary and doug burgum for interior secretary. democrats say some nominees aren't ready for hearings yet. >> senate democrats on the committee have yet to receive basic information about either of these nominees' backgrounds. republicans choosing to rush nominees is quickly becoming a pattern. it's hard not to wonder what are the republicans trying to hide about these nominees from the american people? >> a hearing is not scheduled for tulsi gabbard. she is up for director of national intelligence. the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee mark warner of virginia is not ready to pull the trigger. >> senator warner said of the

intel committee said that he won't do a hearing until he has received all the necessary paperwork. have you met all those deadlines? >> i have. >> have they given you a timetable when the hearing will occur? >> we're waiting to see when they notice the hearing. >> gabbard previously criticized something called fisa section 702. lib terrance said it swept up information of americans. gabbard's recent comments satisfied some concerns about fisa especially from those who believe the program is an important tool to fight terrorism. >> she has changed her position on that or clarified her position to satisfy me that that's 702 provision is extremely important. she has explained, i think, a lot of some of the misinformation that's been out there. she is getting ready to testify before committee. we'll see how she does. >> hold-ups could threaten confirmation of a few nominees on inauguration day. other big hearings on wednesday kristi noem for dhs, marco rubio

for secretary of state and pam bondi to be attorney general. >> bill: let's get it going, all right? saddle up, chad, here we go. chad pergram. >> i'll be here. >> bill: i know you will, thank you. >> the united states of america is definitively better off that we're not entering the 25th year of americans fighting and dying in afghanistan. the strategic call president biden made looking back three years history has judged well and will continue to judge well from the point of view if we were still in afghanistan today, americans would be fighting and dying. >> dana: national security advisor jake sullivan defending president biden's withdrawal from afghanistan saying history vindicates that move. the chaotic -- this afternoon biden will give a speech highlighting his legacy in foreign policy. want to bring bring in jack

keane. when jake sullivan says when we were still in afghanistan people would be dying. that's not the criticism. it was about a decision to withdraw and the way it was done. it is hard to see right now how that looks better in time as history takes its course, sir. >> first of all, americans weren't fighting in afghanistan since 2014. we were there at the end with only 2500 soldiers on the ground and we had three c.i.a. bases as well. and the reality is that 2500, that's less than what would be in one of the 53 brigades in the united states army. and that was a modest commitment by anybody's definition and our soldiers were not fighting and dying as he is describing. that's a false narrative that he is creating there. the six nato nations who were there with us, who had 7,000 troops collectively, they wanted

to stay. and listen, yes, the decision to go was an incentive for the aggression that we have seen since that time. what do i mean by that? it wasn't just the chaotic emergency retreat that took place. that's what we saw on our video. but it was the judgment -- the judgment. when our adversaries look at this and look at the biden administration, biden was willing to walk away from an ally that we stood with for 20 years to defend against radical islamist inside afghanistan who killed 3,000 people in the united states. and he was willing to surrender the country to the adversary that we were fighting. it's not surprising that shortly after that, that we see war in europe in a way we've not seen it since world war ii. that the middle east is on fire initiated by iran to do what? to destroy the state of israel

once and for all and to drive the united states out of the region. and president xi became considerably more aggressive. all of that is taking place why? because they believe the united states is weak, lacks the resolve to confront their adversaries. and that is really the history. the facts are there and they are going to try to dispute those facts. the truth is, as much revisionist history as they attempt to do there is nothing that can hide the fact that this is a failed presidency when it comes to national security and foreign policy and protect theing the american people. >> dana: final word. let me put this up on the board first. shoring up the u.s. presence in syria. trying to get the hostage and cease-fire deal between israel and hamas, boosting venezuela sanctions and surging aid to ukraine. they'll try to do that.

next week we'll begin new with trump back in office. final word to you. >> well, i think the american people saw it for what it is. i try to stay out of politics but it is hard to ignore the fact that over 70% of the american people believe that the country was moving in a new direction and obviously they spoke in a november election and the trump team is going to come in and i think right from the outset -- we're already seeing some evidence of it -- a willingness to confront our adversaries, the biden administration has been unwilling to do it and push them back on their heels. that's what needs to be done and certainly we're not talking about going to war. we're talking about trying to prevent a war. we have two wars going on right now with president xi threatening a third one. that's what we're really facing. i believe a step in the right direction will be to push those adversaries back and i think this administration coming in is likely to do that.

>> dana: general jack keane. thank you so much. a busy week ahead of us. no doubt back in touch with you to give our guidance and leadership from you. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> bill: thank you. moments away from now the latest on the update on the california wildfires and what is coming our way this week. they'll hold a briefing. l.a. mayor karen bass will be there and other officials at the microphone. stand by. we are getting ready to hear what they have to say monday morning as we begin a new week. raging fires burning this structure to the ground. this hardware store was there for the 100 years. the owners have a plan what they will do next. you'll meet them after this. nun for strength and energy. yay - woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. (♪)

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plus firefighters and residents in southern california facing a new threat now. the winds are picking back up and the fear there is that los angeles could see a fresh explosive fire growth. the number of deaths keeps rising. now 24 people are dead. we're standing by. l.a. officials are about to give an important update. we'll take you there live on "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: we're awaiting a news conference from los angeles. mayor bass and other officials will give updates on the wildfire response. crews have made some progress against the fires but dangerous winds are in the forecast. we'll learn more in a few minutes at 11:00 a.m. eastern and bring you the updates as we get them. >> bill: so before we hand off to harris in a moment our next guest vows to rebuild. they lost his family's hardware store in the los angeles fires called the altadena hardware. his family has run it for 14 or 15 years but was there for 100

years. what it was before and now what's left on the right side. rob is with me now, the owner. good morning to you. on the weekend i love a good hardware store. i was looking at the pictures inside and you had a good one. can you tell me about how close you came to trying to save your store, rob? >> good morning, bill. thanks for having me on. i on wednesday morning we received a regular shipment. to be honest with you i didn't have any expectation that the fire would get anywhere close to the store and i did my best to get up to it but the fire was raging even below where our store was. so i would love to say i did my best to put the fire out but i couldn't even get to the store at the time. in fact, my dad, who is the one who initially purchased the

store from the thomas family, multi-generation prior to us, he is the one that got up there and found that the store was just fully engulfed in flames and we weren't going to make it. >> bill: rob, we began our program two hours ago with a gentleman from your community by the name of robert. he probably shopped at your store and this guy was shattered. he was in shock. sometimes it was hard for him to answer. he broke down twice, i think, in a period of five minutes. you, however, have said you are 100% committed to rebuilding. where are you now mentally and emotionally with this not even a week into it? >> well, i mean, i want to be fair in the sense my brother is the other half of this business as well. he manages and does so much for it. so speaking for both of us, i mean, we're -- it's a rollercoaster, up and down. in tears at one moment because

the community, like robert, has been so supportive of the store for so many years and that was something i noticed when we first bought the store, when my dad bought the store in 2010. it was a joy to serve the community. and so i think that's part of why we are so committed to come back. i mean, i love altadena, i grew up there. i went to grammar school all the way through in altadena. we aren't going anywhere. we'll do everything in our power to get the store back up and, yeah. >> bill: the irony of this is when you do reopen, all the folks who are rebuilding their stores will be shopping at your store. thank you and hang tough. my best to your brother and the rest of your family, rob. thank you. >> thank you. >> dana: the human trauma continues and we'll continue as well. harris faulkner will take you to the next hour. breaking news, here you go. >> harris: this is "the faulkner