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could just be taken off the map. >> the devastating scene in los angeles, now looking more like a war zone than one of the most sought after neighborhoods in the country. on the ground with residents returning to leveled homes. >> is this your safe? >> it is. we wanted to get to it before the looters got to it. >> and those who lost, those who matter most. >> i said, my brother is in the house, i need help. and he told me to get out and he said, go. >> and looters. the new problem facing authorities. >> if you are in one of these areas and you do not belong there, you are going to be subject to. arrest. >> plus, the presidential farewell to jimmy carter. >> throughout his life, he showed us what it means to be a practitioner of good works. >> the 39th president's grandson, remembering him as a family man who lived to help others. >> my grandfather was likely to show up at the door in some 70s short shorts and crocs. >> all five living presidents paying their respects. two of

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blaze, prompting more evacuations as the city comes to grips with the unimaginable devastation. mola lenghi is on the ground in altadena. mola. >> well, stephanie, as firefighters work to get a handle on these raging fires, folks are now just beginning to realize the sheer scale of the destruction, the properties, the homes, the businesses lost and of course, the lives lost. it's a number that authorities say they expect will ultimately only increase. >> this is all that's left. the pacific palisades. >> decimated. every single home seems to be damaged or destroyed. >> one of the most beautiful and sought after neighborhoods in the country. >> this is incredible, though. really never seen any destruction like this before. >> the extent of the devastation in the los angeles neighborhood, now visible from the air. over

5000 homes destroyed, according to authorities. the smoke clearing enough for kabc, our abc station in los angeles, to survey the unimaginable damage. the once lush neighborhood filled with multimillion dollar homes, now reminiscent of a war zone. >> pacific palisades right now could just be taken off the map. it's. there is no pacific palisades. >> an estimated 45mi■!s of los angeles has been engulfed by flames. that's nearly the size of the city of san francisco. before and after images showing the unimaginable destruction. at least ten people have been killed in that area. authorities bringing in cadaver dogs to hard hit areas, saying they don't know the exact death toll. >> at one point, we'll be able to do a more thorough search of these impacted areas. some of them look like a bomb was dropped in them. >> the community of altadena and pasadena, also ravaged by the infernos. the eaton fire destroying over 4000 homes. one

of the victims of the fires, 66 year old victor shaw. his family says he died in a heroic attempt to defend his home in altadena. >> i opened the front door and i just yelled in, victor, we got to get out. this is it. we have to get out. the fire's here. and i didn't hear him say anything. i heard him say nothing. so i ran to the car, and i just. i just got out. i just got out and i went down the street and there was a police car, and i flagged him and i said, my brother is in the house, i need help. and he told me to get out. and he said, go. >> later, finding his body out front, a garden hose still in his hand. >> i can't imagine what he might have been thinking, how he might have been so frightened. and i couldn't be here. i couldn't be here to save him. i couldn't be here. that's what hurts the most. >> shaw lived in the family home for more than five decades, and had health issues that impacted

his mobility. >> for the most people, it's property that they lost. but you also, you lost a brother. >> i lost a brother. and my only sibling. so it's going to be quite a. difficult moving forward. but i just have to do the best i can. >> apocalyptic scenes across the city of angels. as harrowing stories emerge, this newly released video shows the terrifying power of the eaton fire a gun. this driver, surrounded by flames and families fleeing the infernos through tunnels of fire, desperate to escape. we've just been evacuated. aaron sampson and his elderly father in law fleeing the pacific palisades fire, stranded without a car. a good samaritan driving them 35 minutes before everyone abandoned their cars and continued on foot. >> this is crazy. there's a fire right? right outside our car. we got this. we got this. come on. turn around. you got it. keep walking down the hill. we got

it, we got it. >> the eaton fire still destroying homes and reaching the foot of mount wilson and its critical broadcast towers for all of la's major tv stations and many fm radio stations. >> and they are critical for communication. >> firefighters stretched thin, racing to contain what they can before the powerful santa ana winds kick up again tonight. thousands of homes in la have been lost since the fires began burning on tuesday night, among them the home of actor cameron mathison. he and his family live in altadena. they evacuated when the fire closed in. >> i couldn't see ten feet in front of me. ash was was, you know, in front of my face. i wasn't seeing a lot of embers at that time, but a lot of ash went into my house, which was also smoky. at that point. i got passports, birth certificates. i got some photo albums that we shot back in the day with film. unfortunately, i didn't get all of them. i forgot some real pivotal ones which break my

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you know, so that she can have all the things that at least to get started. >> many celebrities have lost their homes, including billy crystal, mandy moore, paris hilton and ricki lake. but despite his loss, mathison still says he's one of the lucky ones. >> it's obviously hard in the moment when there's so much grief and loss and shock and disbelief and fear and anger and everything else, but there is so much to be grateful for. there's like obviously our safety, our health. everybody is okay. >> l.a. mayor karen bass, facing criticism for the city's response to the disaster. mayor bass was also on a planned trip to ghana when the fires broke out. >> we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked, what didn't work, and to correct or to hold accountable any body, department, individual, etc. but my focus right now is on the lives and on

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taught me and through his life taught me. the strength of character is more than title or the power we hold. >> all five living u.s. presidents together to honor president carter in a moment of unity. >> you think of how combative and divided and horrible our politics have been recently. i think a lot of americans are seeing that tableau of presidents. i think they feel a little bit better about the country. >> former president george h.w. bush playfully greeting former president barack obama. obama sitting deep in conversation, at times chuckling with president elect trump. >> these are two men who are as fierce and vituperative adversaries in american political history. and there they were, laughing and enjoying themselves. every american probably ever person said, what are those two guys talking about? it was fascinating.

>> and then there was that brief handshake between trump and his former vice president, mike pence, and vice president kamala harris. seeing her political rival just glances back to see president obama, president elect trump, and just kind of turns back, almost seems to not ice them. >> but certainly it was a chill look that she had when she turned back around. >> notably absent from the pew. former first lady michelle obam. >> imagine no possessions. >> the service filled with moments of harmony. singers garth brooks and trisha yearwood, honoring a request by carter singing a rendition of john lennon's imagine. carter's grandson jason, remembering the family man who never forgot his depression era roots. >> they had a little rack next to the sink where they would hang ziploc bags to dry. >> and whose 77 year love story

with his beloved rosalynn was one for the ages. >> rest assured that in these last weeks, he told us that he was ready to see her again. >> i can just see my dad getting his his yellow legal pad out with his pen and writing this for his beloved friend. >> former president gerald ford's son steven, making good on a promise his father and president carter had made to deliver each other's eulogies. >> jimmy carter's legacy of peace and compassion will remain unique as it is timeless. that was so typical of jimmy carter that he developed such a good friendship with the man he beat, and also that he wanted him to talk about their friendship, about their shared ideals. >> no president perhaps exemplifies more of the american dream. born to a humble farming family in rural georgia, elected to the world's most powerful

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>> andinally, tonight, our very own chief international correspondent, james longman. we're used to seeing him report from all over the world. but james sat down with abc's deborah roberts to talk about his new book, the inherited mind, about his own family history. we'd like to warn you that their talk includes mentions of suicide. >> james longman. welcome. thank you. so you and i have been talking about this book. it's a memoir. you talk about your family's journey through mental illness and discovery and hope. what does it feel like to finally have it out? >> it's surreal. i mean, my whole life i felt that this is the story i wanted to tell. my father had schizophrenia. he ended his life when i was nine years old. his brother also had schizophrenia. my grandfather ended his life. my mother has

clinical depression, and the reason i wanted to write the book is because over my life i've had deep sadness and depression. so i've always wondered, is this in me? was it written into my code? how? like, i want to know the science, the genetics, the biology, what's going on on a genetic level. but more than that, i wanted to build out the picture of who he really was as a person. i wanted to give him his identity back, to figure out who he was. as john longman, who was a wonderful person away from his illness, the inherited mind could just literally came out this week where you explore your own life, as you said. >> and what strikes me is it's not just a book about trauma and heartbreak and of the suicide of your father, but it's also about science and hope and trying to help people feel that they can have some hope. is that your intention? >> absolutely. i mean, getting answers to these questions, i think is important because it can give people hope. so much of

the science around mental illness is geared towards giving people answers that can provide them with logic, because logic is what often gets taken away from you when you're feeling deeply depressed, or if you have one of these mental illnesses. i think getting answers to what's really going on in our genes is empowering, because it will give you the tools to overcome what you are, what the code that you were given because you can. genes are not everything. >> you get very vulnerable. in this book, you share some of your own moments of depression and you paint a vivid picture. was it freeing for you to write this book, or was it more difficult to dig deep like this? >> it was freeing. i've always been very honest about the way i feel about my depression. i know that it's what helps me speaking to my friends, speaking to my family when i have been down has been the tonic i have needed. so in that sense, i didn't. i wasn't worried. what i was mostly worried about really was my mother. if i'm really honest,

because my mom plays a big role in the book in my life, and i didn't want to paint her in a really negative way. >> and you're very honest about your mom and your difficult relationship with your mom, but yet you give her a chance to have her say in the book as well. >> you know, there's often when a tragedy hits a family, there's the objective truth of what happened, and then there's what people say happened. and often the law in a family becomes more powerful than the reality. and so it was really important for me to have my perspective, my father's perspective, because i get 120 pages of his medical notes where you've got actually what he said when he's in psychosis, written in the notes and my mom's perspective, i almost get goosebumps just thinking about how honest you are with your colleagues, with people around the world. >> what are you hearing from people so far? >> it's extraordinary. people feel like they have the permission to talk about their own lives. i get messages from people all the time about family members. it's giving people permission to talk about these things. that is what i hope the book does. >> james. thank you. thank you.