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threatening more neighborhoods. new evacuation orders overnight with the death toll rising. firefighters battling on the ground and in the air. displaced residents return to survey what's left amid the scope of the devastation and questions about whether firefighting efforts were hampered by a lack of water. the demands for an investigation. confirmation battles. the names under the most scrutiny. more than a dozen hearings get underway for top positions of power in the new administration. what's next for tiktok? a supreme court ruling due any day on a potential ban in the u.s. what users need to know. is there a workaround? could donald trump step in to save it? exclusive, the eldest daughter of ruby franke speaking out? >> it all checked the boxes with things that ruby had done. >> the state of their relationship. fast food wars.

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over 150,000 people are under evacuation orders. over 71,000 customers are dealing with power outages. >> whit: new evacuation orders were issued overnight. at least eight states and two countries, canada and now mix co-mexico, pitching in to help fight the fires. we have team coverage this morning. beginning with matt rivers in pacific palisades for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yesterday, tense scenes where we saw flames coming up close to properties there. firefighters were able to fight those flames yesterday. thanks in part to a lull in the winds. the winds have gone down a little bit. that's a good thing. i think there's an uneasy calm in los angeles as we expect winds to pick up this week. this morning, a fierce battle against fire underway across los angeles as those powerful santa ana winds make an unwelcome return.

the palisades fire, scorching through more than 23,000 acres and counting, only 11% contained, now threatening popular neighborhoods like brentwood and encino, triggering new evacuations in both places. >> it's very difficult. but we're alive. we're alive. >> reporter: first responders working tirelessly around the clock. aircraft diving over and over, dropping water and retardant in an effort to stop the flames from spreading. >> we were sitting here. they probably did 50 drops between this whole line here. >> reporter: on the ground, we followed firefighters in brentwood as they held the line against the onslaught of flames. you can see with the wind gusts, the flames trying to force their way up from the bottom of the canyon. as they do so, they are getting closer and closer to this house here. this is somebody's patio that we're on. you can see the firefighters doing their best to make sure the flames don't get this high. without the firefighters here

right now, the house here, other houses in this neighborhood, almost certainly gone. with dwindling resources, the firefighters using water from the pool of the very same home they were fighting to save. to bolster their own water supply. a flare-up early saturday even spawning this stunning firenato, spreading flames. new satellite images showing the palisades fire burning south of the encino reservoir. the eaton fire scorching through more than 14,000 acres and only 15% contained. malcolm stewart did his best to save lives the night that fire broke out near his home in altadena, racing around without water, still trying to put out the flames. >> i wasn't even thinking about it. i was thinking about trying to save my neighborhood. i grew up here. >> reporter: he managed to save

several homes. for so many others, he could only watch. >> i'm devastated. i wish i would have had water and saved all these houses. >> reporter: the death toll rising to 16. officials warn the full scope of the loss of life is still unclear. governor newsom doubling the amount of national guard deployed in los angeles. firefighters even flying in from mexico to join the fight. local authorities vowing to find out what exactly caused these devastating fires. announcing a task force led by the atf. >> th task force is made up of local, state and federal partners designed to investigate the cause of the fires and to see if there's any connection between them. >> reporter: volunteers descending on this parking lot in arcadia. hundreds of people donating supplies like clothes and food to evacuees, coming together to help their community however they can. things are calm for the moment.

that might not last. the red flag warnings in place until at least wednesday of this week. the winds expected to pick back up. when that happens, the threat of fire, of course, also rises. >> gio: unbelievable to see the flames so close to the house. thank you so much. to the growing questions about l.a. county's response to the fires and the lack of water to fight them. jacqueline lee is in altadena with this major part of the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that access critical. you can see flames burning in the hillside. the destruction so widespread, this used to be a coffee shop with nothing left behind. this morning, as people trickle back into their devastated communities -- >> i can see my washing machine. i can see so many remnants of what used to be. >> reporter: these two stunned to see the altadena home they spent four years in reduced to ashes.

what do you regret not taking with you? >> definitely my box of keepsakes. my dad fought in world war ii. came back to a segregated country. there were fragments of his tours around the pacific that i wish i kept. >> reporter: stories emerging about the lack of adequate water supply as firefighters and residents battled flames. >> they shut the water off. >> reporter: this 24-year-old ran to her grandmother's home, grabbed a garden hose and tried to save it. >> they shut water off on us. there was nothing we could do. we didn't have any water to try to put out anything. i tried my best. >> reporter: the governor demanding an independent investigation into the reported issue. while the l.a. fire chief claims her department saw a $17.6 million budget cut for the year. this as thousands of residents are now tasked with rebuilding

from some of the worst fires in california history. >> you see the rake, all of this fell straight down. >> reporter: these two say they will do so differently. >> i'm going to be conscious, since we're rebuilding from the ground up, of the materials we use to make sure that it is fire deterrent and in hopes this doesn't happen again. >> reporter: residents are nervous about their ability to obtain home insurance after rebuilding. the state banning insurance companies from cancelling and not renewing policies for one year. >> devastating. a red flag warning is in effect for much of southern california as l.a. prepares for more strong winds this week. we know what those winds can mean. >> somara: this may get worse as far as the forecast before it gets better. red flag warnings are extended through wednesday. places like the pacific

palisades, san fernando, riverside, irvine. fire weather watch out. there's a critical fire risk in place for much of the los angeles county, malibu. this means winds could gust up to 50 miles per hour, even stronger. the mountains, that's where we could see wind gusts as high as 75 miles per hour. we are going to see winds peak monday night into tuesday morning. >> whit: not the news fire crews want to hear. we will stay on top of it. turning to politics. confirmation battles begin for more than a election of president-elect trump's key nominees. >> good morning. the trump team is eager to get the hearings underway. there are 14 scheduled this week in various senate committees. three on tuesday, including the first hearing for pete hegseth. president-elect trump's pick to

lead the department of defense. he is one of the most controversial, facing accusations of sexual and financial misconduct as well as alcohol abuse. he denies those claims and has never been charged. he does not have the traditional experience expected for someone potentially assuming this role. beyond his time serving in the army national guard. we know the senators have more information about him. abc confirmed the fbi interviewed multiple people as a part of a background check investigation. he sat for an interview with the fbi. the top senators were briefed. kristi noem, trump's pick to lead the department of homeland security, and pomam bondi, scheduled for hearings wednesday. both of those will likely get a lot of attention. >> whit: thank you. let's bring in jonathan carl who will host "this week" this morning. good morning to you.

what are the biggest hurdles ahead? who is likely to face the toughest fight? >> this is a heck of a week. you have 14 different cabinet nominees that will have hearings. the most controversial this week certainly will be pete hegseth for the reasons you heard. both the allegations against him, which he denies. but also his level of experience. some saying he is just not experienced to take on the pentagon. also those two days of hearings with pam bondi. she's expected to be confirmed relatively easily. so many tough questions about how she will handle the justice department, the pardons for the january 6th rioters just the start of that. beyond that, we have kash patel for the fbi, tulsi gabbard for the director of national intelligence. you have a series -- bobby

kennedy, a series of controversial nominees. these will be some of the liveliest confirmation hearings we have seen. >> whit: might get more heated in the weeks ahead. we are just eight days away from trump's inauguration. what are the top issues we can expect him to take on right away? >> in terms of legislation, the border. legislation and executive orders, securing the border, his talk of mass deportations. second to that, certainly his plans to renew the trump tax cuts and perhaps do additional tax cuts. then you have the foreign policy realm. he has talked about having a meeting soon with vladimir putin, suggested there's been some conversations about setting that up. i will talk this morning with trump's incoming national security advisor, mike waltz. we will talk about that. what trump said this week about taking over greenland and the

panama canal, maybe canada. it's interesting to say the least on the foreign policy front for donald trump. >> whit: where that could fit into this agenda as he comes into the white house again. jon carl, thank you. tune in to "this week" later on. he interviews mike waltz about president-elect trump's foreign policy agenda. plus, the latest on the l.a. wildfires with deanne criswell and adam schiff. >> gio: now to the rise in respiratory illness. things are so bad in one state that some hospitals are restricting visitors. >> reporter: good morning. if it feels like everyone is coughing or sneezing, you are not imagining. hospitals are dealing with the wave of respiratory illnesses, hitting families hard, especially young kids. the cdc says more than half of the country, at least 35 states,

are seeing high or very high levels of flu, covid, rsv, even the common cold. this season, the flu alone has sent more than 63,000 people to the hospital and caused at least 2,700 deaths. that includes 11 children. we are expecting fresh numbers tomorrow. in michigan, the situation so serious that two major detroit health systems are now limiting visitors to help stop the spread of flu and rsv. pediatric units overwhelmed, with some hospitals at 95% capacity. health experts urging everyone to get flu and covid vaccines and to stay home if you are sick. >> good advice. stay home if you are sick. let's get to the future of tiktok. a majority of supreme court justices appear inclined to uphold the law that would ban the social media app in the u.s., unless the parent divests. the ruling likely in the next few days. we will talk more about that.

i think a lot of people thought this would never happen. how exactly would a ban work? would people be able to use the app? >> it's important to know using the app is not illegal if you have it on your phone. it's not a crime to go into it and scroll if it does get banned. if it is banned, it's unclear really what's going to happen. a lawyer for tiktok said he is not sure. he told the supreme court justices he believes it will disappear. that's what happened in india when they banned the app in 2020. it disappeared. the apple and google play stores will not be able to host the app. if you are one of the 170 million people in this country who have the app, half the country, you are no longer going to get updates. the internet hosting companies and data storage providers who support the app won't be able to do that. if they do, they will get fines. over time, the app will be glitchy. it will be slow. the functionality will erode. it will be obsolete.

>> whit: if the ban goes into affect, is there some way users can get around it? >> when there's a will, there's a way. doesn't mean it's a good way. you could use your web browser, safari to get on the website. that's going to be a stripped down version. the experience is different. there's also vpn, the virtual private network that makes it think you are not in the country that's banned the app. there's a small fee that goes along with that. if you use a third party or use these go-around, don't leave yourself vulnerable to malware. >> gio: it's set to happen january 19th. the next day, donald trump is inaugurated. he has said he wanted to save tiktok. can he do anything? >> remember in his first administration, he moved to shut it down? that got blocked. he wants to save it. he is asking for more time. let me get in the white house to negotiate a sale. we don't know what that would look like. at the end of the day, he could choose not to enforce this ban. basically signal to apple and google, go ahead, we won't fine

it. he could go to congress. whatever he does, it probably won't happen overnight. >> gio: you always break this down in an easy way. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >> gio: time for the weather. >> somara: good morning. look at this picture out of asheville, north carolina. some of the mountains in western north carolina got up to six inches of snow. we are in for another arctic blast. this cold air settling in. kansas city wednesday morning, 9. chicago headed to work on wednesday morning, minus 4. in boston, taking kids to school thursday morning, feeling like 4. that's a look at the forecast across the country. see what's going on closer to home.

>> somara: back to you. >> whit: you ready for football? it is sunday. the wild card weekend in the nfl, two teams moving ahead overnight. four more games on tap. perry, good morning. >> an odd moment last night. the game will to be stopped because of a drone flying over the stadium. on the field, nothing was stopping the ravens. >> jackson fires. >> the ravens flying into the divisional round. a wild card weekend beatdown of their rival, the pittsburgh steelers. henry stomping all over the steelers.

>> there goes henry. >> henry ends with 186 yards on the ground. ends the steelers' season. wild card weekend starting with the chargers visiting the texans. before the game, a moment of silence for those affected by the wildfires in southern california. players on the field wearing these lafd shirts and hats. after the chargers jumped out to a 6-0 lead, it was all texans. >> touchdown! texans on the board. >> reporter: the texans' defense turning it on. >> touchdown texans. >> the chargers fighting back. >> herbert throws it in the air. catch made. mcconkey breaking away. >> an 86-yard touchdown throw. the extra point gets blocked, popped up in the air. >> dicker knocked it away.

>> the texans run it back for two points. this was a nightmare game for justin herbert. >> picked off. fourth of the day. >> throwing four interceptions. that's more than he threw during the entire regular season. >> we have a full schedule of games today. >> whit: monday night football game had to be moved because of the wildfires. what do we know about that? >> that game is the vikings against the l.a. rams. it was supposed to be a home game for the rams. it was moved to arizona where the cardinals play. the owner of the cardinals brought the team to arizona. the families and pets came, too. >> whit: great to see the league offering support. thank you so much. see the vikings take on the rams in arizona, that's tomorrow 8:00 p.m. eastern on abc and espn. >> it should feel like a home game for the rams. it's easier to get to. >> gio: coming up, more nfl.

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♪ she's the queen. welcome back to gma sunday morning. ♪ she's the queen. welcome back to gma sunday morning. anticipation for beyonce to make a big announcement tuesday. immediately following her halftime show we loved, she shared a tease of her on a horse with an american flag. then the date 1/14/25. from a new album to a new tour or maybe a documentary, fans have all kinds of theories on social media. it looks like we will wait until she's ready to tell us on the 14th. >> gio: what could it be? >> whit: pretty good guesses, album, tour. >> or something that none of us have thought of. >> gio: a whole new movie or something. who knows? >> whit: right now, a new round of santa ana winds fuelling flames in southern california. fire danger in intensifying. new evacuation orders overnight.

the death toll rising to 16 fire-related deaths. more than 150,000 people are under evacuation orders. more than 71,000 customers dealing with power outages. dozens of people were injured when two trams collided in france. none of the injuries are critical, thankfully. investigators are trying to figure out what caused them to collide. one was found derailed. >> gio: blue origin will launch a larger rocket for the first time. it will send it into orbit as early as monday morning. it's meant to be a reusable rocket that can send large payloads into orbit. it was postponed twice because of the weather. very interesting. it's a very big rocket. we will start this half hour with an abc news exclusive. the eldest daughter of ruby

franke sharing about what it was like growing up before her mom was sent to prison for child abuse. we have more, including where she says their relationship stands right now. >> i will say it one more time. then you will lose the privilege to eat dinner. >> reporter: once popular mom influencer now a convicted child abuser. the case garnering headline after headline, captivating the country. >> it made things hard to build relationships that people can learn about me by looking me up online. i have been able to choose now what parts of my life i choose to share with the public and what i don't. >> reporter: now the eldest child detailing what she says it was like growing up with ruby in her new memoir "the house of my mother." >> keeping them home from school and wiping the floorboards would bring pain. >> a lot of narratives in the

media kind of pinpoint jody as the reason things went wrong and ruby was good until jody came. that wasn't the case and that wasn't my case. >> reporter: jody was the counselor who moved into the family home. shortly after, her father moved out. she was cut off from the family when she left for college. >> it wasn't until i left for college that i started looking up, what is a cult? what is spiritual abuse? what is emotional abuse? it checked the boxes with things that ruby had done. >> reporter: in august 2023, a reality was revealed. her younger brother going to a neighbor's home. >> i had a 12-year-old boy at my front door asking for help. he said he had came from a neighbor's house. he is emaciated. he has tape around his legs.

>> reporter: this 911 call leading to her mother and the other woman's arrests. >> i was kind of learning information about the case as the world was finding out. i wanted to be told first. i was family. >> reporter: are you proud of your little brother? >> i mean, i think, yes, the whole world is proud of him. >> reporter: they pleaded guilty to four counts of child abuse against the two youngest. they will serve at least four years in prison. >> i don't think i will get an apology. i don't need an apology. i have worked through that with lots of therapy. lots of inner work, again, whether she apologizes or not, it's not going to change my healing. >> reporter: she does write to you from prison? >> she wrote to me once. yeah, she hasn't written since. i think she gets the idea that we don't want to hear from her.

>> reporter: your father, who you refer to as kevin in the book, you are speaking to him? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: what's that relationship like now? >> that relationship is really important to me. that broke my heart to be kind of disowned by that and not be able to speak to him. >> reporter: kevin telling abc news, he is proud of his daughter. the recently engaged shari telling us, she's focused on rebuilding her family relationships. do you want to be a mother? >> i do, for sure. i told myself when i was young, even before jody, i'm not going to be like ruby. i will be a better mother. >> gio: "the house of my mother," is available right now. it's time for a check of the weather. the latest. >> somara: we are talking about the pacific palisades and fires out there.

look at this stunning visual of the fire hitting the ground. terrifying. as the climate is changing, we are seeing that the wildfires are becoming more extreme. we are getting more extreme weather events. in 2024, warmest year for the earth since 1850 when we have been keeping records. the annual temperature was above the 1.5 degree celsius threshold. what impact does that mean? 41% more land is burned by wildfires as a result. that's a look at the forecast across the country. let's see what's going on in your neighborhood. >> somara: that's a look at your local forecast. back to you. >> whit: fast food wars, the big chains vying for your dollar. how you can cash in.

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>> rhiannon: welcome back to welcome back to gma. deals galore at fast food restaurants these days, trying to attract customers when money

is tight for many people. >> lots of deals. good morning. the value meal is making a comeback. many ringing in the new year with budget friendly deals. ♪ eat like a king who is on a budget ♪ >> reporter: it's the year of the value meal. >> have you dreamt of getting two of your favorite items for seven bucks? >> reporter: fast food chains rolling out deals to win back consumers who have lost their appetite over higher prices. >> they were supposed to be cheap and fast. tell me why i got a burger with fries and a drunk and it was $16. >> reporter: restaurants are taking notice. mcdonald's announcing it is extending the $5 meal deal through the summer. adding a buy one add one option for $1 more. subway kicking off with a

sandwich of the day bag of chips and small drink for seven bucks. chains raised prices to offset the price of food and labor. >> households were sensitive. as a result, they shifted some of the spending on food to preparing meals at home. >> reporter: according to government figures, the price of eating out is rising faster than inflation, up 3.6% from a year ago. more than double the cost eating at home. >> i am super excited to tell you about burger king's new $5 duo and $7 trio deal they got going on. >> reporter: these fast food wars could mean more value on the menu for consumers. >> i wouldn't expect them to stick around. consumers shouldn't worry too much about a sticker shock in the future. >> reporter: he is excited about burger king.

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>> whit: we are back with the wild card weekend, getting ready to play out in the nfl.

coach herm edwards is joining us with his insights on the games. good morning. it's great to have you. let's jump right into this one. daniels, he has been exceptional this season for washington. how do you see him handling the pressure of his first playoff game? >> i think it won't be too much for him. think about going back to the opening game of the season, they played the bucs and lost 37-20. this is the history of daniels. when he runs for 50 or more yards, they are 6-2. it's important he leaves the pocket and extends plays with his legs. the problem washington has is baker mayfield. people don't realize, the buccaneers, they are the third ranked offense in the national football league. baker has thrown 41 touchdown passes. i will say it again, 41 touchdown passes. this ought to be a high scoring affair. at the end of the day, it will

be in the fourth quarter and whatever quarterback has the ball last will probably win this football game. >> gio: let's look at the packers meeting your philly eagles. barkley was a factor scoring three touchdowns against green bay. what adjustment do the packers need to make? >> obviously, they will try to contain him. i don't know if you can do that. the guy ran for 2,000 yards. the packers need to try to make the eagles beat you throwing the football. make the eagles one handed. make them try to beat you passing the football. that's the only way the packers have a chance to beat the eagles. even with all that, i think the eagles will fly, eagles, fly. >> whit: objectively. >> whit picked the lions.

that poid paid off. here is how it looks. sorry, gio, you have seven. >> gio: it's a great number. >> we have the vikings versus the rams, now in arizona. who is your pick? >> i'm behind. i have to go with the team no one will pick, the rams. i picked the vikings last week. boy, was i wrong. i'm done with the vikings. >> i like the rams. janai said, whoever herm is picking. >> gio: rams. i'm going with the rams. >> whit: i feel confident. i will extend this lead. you were wrong last time on the vikings. i'm going with the vikings over the rams. >> oh. oh, okay. >> whit: that's right.

you see me going. i'm extending this lead. >> give him a win because his 49ers aren't in it. >> whit: there we go. >> that's a different story. we will talk about that later. >> whit: coach is my therapist on that. thank you. >> thank you. >> catch the vikings versus the rams, that's monday night at 8:00 right here on abc. >> whit: coach edwards is coming in studio next week on saturday. that's a lot of fun. he just found out just now. we will be right back with our play of the day. we will be right back with our play of the day.

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won, and we're back now on gma with a special play of the day. >> the california choir rising from the ashes. the altadena community church was reduced to rubble from the eaton fire. but that's not stopping the pasadena chorale, who had been meeting there for the past 16 years. the church of the brethren. and in laverne, california, that's about 30 miles away, offered sanctuary for the singers. the church's minister of music says it's the least he can do, and the choir is thankful for the outreach, raising their voices to celebrate a community of caring. if you'd like to learn more on how to help those displaced by the la fires, we have that qr code right there at the corner of the screen for you can, so you could find that information. >> you could listen to them all day. what beautiful voices. >> beautiful was a reminder. a church is not a building. it's a community. it's a congregation. it's great to see those inspiring moments amid so much destruction. and thank you for starting your day with us. >> have a great reading. oh, and joining you my and join us

the fear and devasted nation this morning. >> new reporting on the wildfires and exclusive california senator adam schiff this morning on abc's. now from abc seven mornings. >> good morning i'm stephanie sierra san jose police are currently on the scene of a shooting and are asking people to avoid the area. >> police say a man was shot in the head last night just after 10:00. this is in the area of loma verde drive from eden avenue to winchester boulevard. it's currently blocked off right now. officers performed cpr on the victim and he was taken to a nearby hospital. he's currently in critical condition. police say this is still an ongoing investigation, and they're still actively searching for a suspect. a heads up, if you take part, there are some minor schedule changes coming due to construction starting tomorrow. some departure times will shift by a few minutes. crews will be

working on the track between coma and millbrae nightly to upgrade bart's train control system. after 9:00, the mill bay station will be served by a train that will run every 15 minutes between millbrae and sfo only, and riders will have to transfer at sfo to board a yellow line train to finish their trip. due to weather now and the winds that continue both in southern california, a major concern least. yeah, the next several days through wednesday in southern california right now , our wind advisory with us until 10:00, where we are still looking at breezy upper elevation winds. >> and some of the gusts have been near 40 miles an hour right now. you'll notice they're 36 miles an hour. the east foothills, so particularly windy here in down through mount eminem, 41 miles an hour and you can see up in the north bay. so throughout the afternoon we'll eventually get a wind shift. and they will ease up. but take a look. they'll still be breezy to gusty with that dry offshore component. there's a look outside, nice and clear 56 with the wind there in the upper

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