right now. >> we are not out of this crisis yet. we still have another 24 to

48 hours. >> the worst winds are predicted today for the late afternoon and into wednesday. >> everything's not okay yet. we'll get there. we'll get there together. but again, the winds blowing and it's going to continue to blow. >> yeah. so not yet is the message a sentiment echoed by officials in los angeles today as they brace for the return of strong santa ana winds, which could threaten the fire fight. good evening. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us. so far, the winds have been slightly milder than originally forecast, but the big test will be overnight when the wind threat is expected to create a particularly dangerous situation. those words according to the national weather service. >> so here is the latest on the fires. at least 25 people are dead and that number is expected to rise. more than 20 people remain missing between the palisades and eaton fires. authorities have made dozens of arrests in the fire zones for things ranging from looting to flying drones and fire zones and attempted arson.

>> and here's a look at the size of the two largest and most active fires. the palisades fire has burned more than 23,000 acres and remains 17% contained, while the eaton fire has burned more than 14,000 acres and is 35% contained. but fortunately, the footprint of both fires has not grown in the past 24 hours. >> and since many residents still aren't allowed in the fire zones, crews from cal fire's damage inspection team have been assessing the extent of the damage. it helps provide people with updates about their properties. officials got to see the damage for themselves from the air before the wind picked up. >> the massive, massive destruction is unimaginable until you actually see it. >> investigators are starting to zero in on a specific street as they look to pinpoint where the palisades fire started last tuesday. >> now, some people who live in pacific palisades have now been able to make it back to see what is left, if anything, of their homes. abc seven news reporter

j.r stone talked with some of them and has the latest now from los angeles. >> the damage is extensive all across pacific palisades. among the debris, an american flag flying above the american legion building. unfortunately, thomas doran's home did not make it through the fire, nor did other homes that his family members lived in. >> 6 or 7 family houses in pacific palisades burned that night. >> but as bad as it was, dozens of emergency crew members could be seen tuesday in pacific palisades, working to get the neighborhood back. >> we've been here forever, and we'll be back. it's a good town. so we're we're blessed to be here. >> i spoke with sarah silver as i was standing near the main strip in pacific palisades. a burned out building on one side of me. california national guard across the street. the mere image of me standing near the building was eye opening to sarah. sarah was renting this

home that survived the fires here in the palisades, but she lost her nearby home that she owned. this video shows that home burning last week, and all of that heat is pushing across. >> look at that. look at that. >> you can see it was a total loss. but even with all of this rubble and destruction, there is hope among those who live here who say this is their community. >> we really are a huge family, and that's what breaks my heart the most, is it's not just me going through this. all of us are going through this. >> and optimism among those like sarah silver. >> honestly, i think the main thing that keeps coming up is just i'm so overwhelmed and i'm in shock still. and i'm very sad. and i'm also hopeful. every day i'm feeling more hopeful despite all of the chaos that's going in all of our heads. i do feel that we're going to end up

okay. >> and that was j.r. stone reporting. now we have been talking about the concern over the winds around the fire area that are forecast to pick up. so for more on that let's get to abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel. sandhya. >> yeah ama the concern is still there that we are going to be facing extreme fire risk in southern california going into tomorrow. let me show you why. so the winds not nearly as strong as they were expected, but it was gusty. and it still is camp 949 miles an hour. red flag warnings are going until tomorrow night. it becomes a particularly dangerous situation. red flag warning tomorrow from 3 a.m. to 3 p.m. that's when the strongest winds are expected. it's a combination of northeast to east, 40 to 70 mile an hour gusts, relative humidity down to the single digits in some areas. i mean, we're talking 8 to 15% combined with critically dry fuels. and that extreme fire risk is there shaded in the pink. we go hour by hour. those winds this evening 31 malibu hills, acton

36 going into 8 p.m. close to 40 miles an hour. and as we head into the late night hours, still gusty tomorrow morning. simi valley, almost 40 miles an hour, topping that at length by 1:00 in the afternoon. and then the winds begin to back off as we head towards the evening hours, the peak wind gusts across the region. magic mountain trails 74 miles an hour. last 24 hours 62. mill creek 47, in malibu hills. i'll be back with a look at our forecast and the changes that are ahead. dan. >> all right, sandra, thanks very much. the devastation in southern california has communities all across the state thinking of what their response would be. here locally, one bay area city is hoping that its new investment in resources can bring some comfort to its residents. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes has the story. >> it's my honor and privilege to place truck 56 in service at quarters. >> as bay area cities face massive budget deficits and cut

emergency services, fremont is bucking the trend. instead, the fremont fire department is adding 18 members to staff its new company and promoting others to also help support it. a celebration ceremony tuesday comes as wildfires in southern california highlight a critical need for resources. >> we have partners like my former agency, the oakland fire department, who's having to brown out stations, temporarily close stations to address some fiscal challenges as well as livermore is another partner of mine who's also required to brown out a station. and here we are in fremont, in a position where we can open a 14th company. >> the 14th company is opening its 14 fremont fire department. firefighters are helping on the front lines in southern california. >> we're very blessed that we're able to do that because we have so many firefighters. we have adequate resources here locally and we're not feeling the shortage. >> still, adding the resources has been a process going back 20 years. >> more and more, we're seeing that public safety is under

threat, and we need to make sure that we have adequate public safety. >> fremont mayor raj salwan hopes the city's new fire company can serve as a model that helps streamline the process to add future resources. >> i think we have to prove that this model works. i think once people see that we're being much more responsive, our 911 response call is much faster. they feel more safe that they will reinvest in more services, and they'll have more trust of the city. >> government and officials are confident that more resources are on the horizon. >> this is the beginning. we're going to continue, you know, to leverage technology so that we're making sure that we're efficiently delivering the service that we all agreed to, and is part of our mission as public servants to offer the citizens of fremont. >> in fremont, zack fuentes, abc seven news. >> and while los angeles battles those infernos, governor newsom is trying to put out political fires with his opponents to the right. >> blasting the governor's response already the same group that has tried time and again to recall, newsom is revamping that

effort, with organizers saying they plan to file papers. >> abc seven news reporter monica madden joins us. and, monica, will any of this impact newsom's white house ambitions? we'll see. >> that's still far away. while these fires are set to be the worst in california history, let's not forget that the electorate can have a short memory. and political consultants consider newsom to be politically resilient. surviving pr crises throughout his career, whether it was a sordid affair, a pandemic party or a failed recall, governor gavin newsom is something of a phoenix rising from the ashes of political turmoil. again and again, gavin newsom was never more popular than when they were trying to recall him. this time, the governor is fighting off criticism of his handling of the wildfires ravaging los angeles county. >> i think that gavin is largely incompetent. >> i think he's doing about as good as you can do in this situation. >> political consultant jim ross worked with newsom in his first run for san francisco mayor. if anything, ross speculates, the

attacks from the right might bolster the governor's aspirations for higher office. >> a response to a wildfire like this is as close to you can get to a presidential test. it really gives them an opportunity to contrast himself against some of these, you know, more conservative and right wing voices. >> the feuding is not new, especially with the incoming president. but now trump threatens to withhold federal disaster relief to california or make it conditional. republican congressman tom mcclintock says this time, that might be warranted. >> that discussion is going to take place, but we've got to change the policies or this is going to happen again. >> slamming policies, he says, have hampered california's ability to clear brush for fire prevention efforts. >> we did these things quite successfully throughout the 20th century. environmental laws that we then passed have made permitting for these practices endlessly time consuming, ultimately cost prohibitive. so we stopped doing them. >> democratic congressman eric swalwell says now is not the

time for politics. >> people in the area are still in evacuation zones and are not in their homes. i don't think that's what they want right now. they just they want their government to do what government is supposed to do, which is respond to a crisis and take care of them. >> hanging in the balance. california's ability to secure much needed fema relief money as the santa ana winds gather pace, threatening to worsen an already dire situation. an adviser for newsom tells abc seven news that the governor is, quote, 100% focused on fires, ongoing rescue efforts and the recovery process, not politics. ama and dan. >> all right, monica, thank you. >> well, coming up, we have much more coverage of the los angeles county fires, including this incredible video of one man helping a neighbor find her dog and evacuate. >> but first, after the break, the peninsula's immigrant community is on edge, following border patrol operations in the central valley. the action local officials are taking to help protect undocumented people in san mateo county. a

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rosa home have been identified as a divorced couple and their adult children. 67 year old clive gough and his ex-wife donna gough were found dead inside the home on monarch court last wednesday. the bodies of reina and cameron gough. clive and donna's daughter and son were also found inside the house. all had gunshot wounds. a handgun was found near one of the deceased, but investigators say the cause of death and motive for the shootings is still not clear. >> news of immigration raids in the central valley are sparking fear among farm workers across the bay area. abc seven news reporter luz pena went to the san mateo county coast to find out how nonprofits are helping undocumented immigrants respond in case of potential raids here. >> an unexpected three day border patrol operation in the central valley is amplifying

fear in the san mateo county coast. you work at a mushroom farm here. e como estas? how are you? >> es un poco preocupado por la pasando ahorita. on migration. >> i'm a little worried with what's happening right now with immigration. this farm worker, who did not want to be identified, said everyone at the farm he works at is on edge. last week, border patrol agents showed up in unmarked vehicles and arrested 78 undocumented immigrants in fresno and kern counties. agents said their mission was targeted at criminals, but nonprofits are concerned this may be an excuse, as they've heard families were also arrested and they're worried the same could happen here. >> some people moved out of the area and you can see i was we were at the store and there was nobody around. there's a lot of concern. there's a lot of fear. >> joaquin jimenez, former mayor of half moon bay, distributed hundreds of these red cards, listing out the rights undocumented immigrants should know in case an immigration

agent confronts them. >> they have work permit, but that does not prevent from ice to uh- to detain them. >> according to county records, there are over 2500 farm workers in san mateo county. the agricultural industry generates over $100 million a year here, a number that could be highly impacted if immigration raids happen here in pescadero. the nonprofit puente is assembling a group of attorneys to hold an immigration workshop on wednesday. >> even if you don't have documents, you do still have rights. and so for people to understand their rights, you should not run. that's really important. but you also have the right to stay quiet. you don't you don't have to answer the questions. >> puente is also using this app to text farm workers in case of a raid. >> we will let the community know using this text tool that we have. >> in the meantime, some farm workers are afraid to go back to work. we're hoping that they don't come here. in half moon bay, luz pena, abc seven news.

>> coming up after the break. a chilly start, but it ended up being a beautiful day across the bay area. we'll check back in with abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel for what we with the way that pg&e handled the wildfires. yeah. yeah. i totally, totally understand. we're adding a ton of sensors. as soon as something comes in contact with the power line, it'll turn off so that there's not a risk that it's gonna fall to the ground and start a fire. okay. and i want you to be able to feel the improvements. we've been able to reduce wildfire

risk from our equipment by over 90%. that's something i want to believe. [skateboard sounds]

up in southern california once again tonight. >> yes. meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking it all for us. sandhya. yeah. >> and ama and dan, there is definitely concern as we take a look at live doppler seven. we have the setup that is bringing the gusty winds to southern california and keeping that fire danger elevated. so high pressure is just off the pacific northwest and northern california coast. and we've got this area of low pressure that's southwest of los angeles. so basically what's happening is the wind is flowing from the high to the low, keeping that red flag warning going for gusty winds, low humidity and critically dry conditions until 6 p.m. tomorrow. it becomes a particularly dangerous situation tomorrow morning until tomorrow afternoon. looking at live

doppler seven, we do have some high clouds passing through creating this beautiful sunset you're seeing from our santa cruz camera. it is 56 in the city, 59 in oakland. you're at 60 in san jose, 66 redwood city and 52 in half moon bay. clear view from our golden gate bridge camera. temperatures in the 50s right now from santa rosa to petaluma 54, fairfield 58, in concord and livermore. now it was a chilly start. we had some 30s this morning. we're going to do it all over again. as you look at a view from our east bay hills camera tomorrow morning. clear and chilly next few days we're talking about sunny weather still above average for this time of year, but by the end of the week we do have a cooler pattern setting up as fog returns. let's talk about rain. i know this month has been fairly dry. san francisco is falling almost about two inches behind where they should be. so 18 hundredths of an inch on friday, the third and 100th of an inch on monday the sixth. and that's it. and as we look ahead, it is looking dry for at least a

week to possibly ten days, which would put this january in one of the top three, san francisco's driest january. so of course, 2015 we had no measurable rain 20 14/600. and as you will notice, 20 2519 hundredths of an inch of rain going hour by hour this evening. temperatures in the 50s by 815. you're already coming down into the 40s. it is going to get chilly. so tonight would be a night, especially with the lack of the breezy conditions in the hills where you'll want to bundle up tomorrow morning, beginning with some 30s and our coldest locations, and there will be some patchy frost in places like fairfield tomorrow afternoon. you're looking at mainly 50s and 60s, and then in the evening, another cool one. so let's start you off with your morning temperatures. 34 in fairfield, 35 livermore, santa rosa, down to the low 40s, san francisco, oakland, san jose, 43, in half moon bay. tomorrow afternoon, temperatures will come back up again and this time it's going to be milder, mostly 60s across

the region, still above average. on thursday. we'll keep it on the mild side. you'll notice those 60s, but friday temperatures start to drop 50s and 60s. and that pattern carries over into the weekend. so some of you have been wondering what's going on with our pattern. let's talk about why we're not getting any rain. we've got this blocking high, this big ridge of high pressure diverting the storm track. the only thing that's happening is these systems are dropping down and the wind is picking up. so over the weekend we are going to see some more cloud cover, certainly a marine layer returning to southern california, which should help the firefighters going into next week. just some occasional clouds. this is taking you through friday of next week, keeping the storm track well to our north accuweather seven day forecast. it's a cold morning, a milder day still above average for your thursday and then friday the cooling begins. it continues for the weekend. below average for sunday. dry for the holiday. in case you have outdoor activities for martin luther king junior day, and then a few more clouds on tuesday. >> dan and i have a brother who lives in indiana. he told me it

is two o puts it in perspective. >> yes it does. that's brutal. thanks, sandy. >> well, these are the final minutes for an iconic surf shop in santa cruz. the flagship o'neill surf shop on pacific avenue in downtown is closing for good at 6:00. it posted this closing message on social media. an employee says the lease was expiring and they did not want to renew it. the location had been open for 25 years. three other o'neill shops in santa cruz will stay open. that's the good news. surfing legend jack o'neill opened his first surf shop in 1952 off san francisco's great highway. >> still ahead. help and support from the bay to la. we're going to show you how people here in the bay area are mobilizing to help the los angeles county fire victims. >> i'm reggie aqui. >> i'm lyanne melendez. i'm luz pena. i'm tara campbell, i'm j.r. >> stone at abc seven news. >> we deliver local stories with real answers to help make o

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with our abc seven bay area streaming tv app. just search abc seven bay area and download it when you have a moment. >> this your house that's on fire right here. okay. let's go quick. okay. come on. >> go inside. >> oh. california man helped rescue a woman and her four dogs from the palisades fire. he says he was on his way out from helping in the hills. when the woman ran up to his truck begging for help. she told him her car was in her garage and wouldn't start with her four dogs inside. he shared this footage on social media. you can see them driving through the thick smoke, dodging flames and embers. oh my gosh. >> oh my gosh. oh my gosh. >> that's you guys can make your way over to. that fire. oh my god. down inside. oh my gosh. >> oh my god. >> oh my gosh. yeah. okay. okay. >> go inside. he stayed calm. fortunately, they were all able to safely make it out of the area. right now, there are efforts across the area to get

animals out of fire zones. bay area shelters are even answering the call by taking in pets. >> and i'll have a story about that coming up tonight at 11:00. local businesses are also stepping in to help in half moon bay. cameron's restaurant, pub and inn is gathering donations for fire victims in the los angeles area. >> the pub says it's happy to serve as a collection point and coordination center for you to drop off clothing, shoes, blankets. the items will be taken to san jose international airport to be flown down south. the owner says so far they've loaded up three trucks. >> we experienced this a few years back with the santa cruz fires, and our hearts just go out to these folks. oh my god, i pray for you all. our hearts are hurting. >> the pub will accept donations until communities in l.a. say they just don't need any more. >> in san francisco, shaw's candy on west portal has been taking donations as well. you can see how generous the community has been by all of the piles of bags they've gotten. organizers tell us they are

overwhelmed by the response so far. they're now asking for volunteers to help sort through the items before the truck leaves tomorrow afternoon. >> heartwarming to see the response. well, you can help as well. just go to red cross.org/abc to help the red cross respond to those in need. >> and do not forget we do have much more coverage of the southern california wildfires coming up at 530 on abc seven bay area streaming tv. >> and if you're watching us here on tv. world news tonight with david muir is next with sandhya patel. all of us here. we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley and i'm ama daetz. >> we will see you again at 6:00.

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tonight, breaking news. authorities in los angeles at this hour warning of life-threatening winds starting in the overnight hours tonight. 12 million people now under extreme