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washington where he is lying in state tonight, 1k3 and a member the legendary folk trio who wrote puff the magic dragon, remembering peter yarrow. a wind storm is kicking you have explosive and rapidly spreading brush and wildfires all over southern california this evening. homes are already engulfed in flames in the pacific palisades section of l.a. forcing thousands of to flee and creating a dangerous situation. fire emergency fueled by powerful santa ana winds. officials had warned of extreme fire danger. tonight the danger has become a reality for those caught in the path. as the flames and smoke spread

some drivers abandoned vehicles causing gridlock for others, including our own liz kreutz. liz joins us now from los angeles. liz, it is a desperate situation with so many rushing to get out. >> reporter: lester, this is a chaotic situation unfolding now. we are hearing reports of people trapped. hundreds of people have been trying to get out creating gridlock traffic. all of the cars around me are abandoned with people that got out to get out on foot. there are hundreds of firefighters who are working te fire right now. all of it is driven by an intense wind event that is just getting started. the wind-driven wildfire blazes through one of southern california's most iconic neighborhoods. people are waiting and it is a

parking lot. >> i rushed over to pack my belongings and i got the evacuation orders. >> reporter: residents told to get out, some people getting trapped. >> homeowners are saying they are unable to access any exit routes. there is fire on both sides of the road. >> reporter: many abandoning cars in the gridlocked traffic. fire crews using a bulldozer pushing cars out of the way to clear a path. we are in bumper to bumper traffic. flames on both sides of the road with very little visibility. >> up and around those two homes, they didn't catch fire but everything around them did. >> reporter: inside this hard-hit neighborhood. >> this is a rge clock here. a large antique beautiful family clock. there are photo albums the firefighters pulled from the home minutes before the flames

overtook it. >> reporter: smoke from the growing fire seen miles away. we are in the heart of l.a. on sunset boulevard. all of the firefighters trying to get ahead of the wind putting on out the flames. firefighters using air drops to put out the flames. 19 million people under red flag warnings with wind gusts expected to reach 100 miles per hour in some area. >> the only thing i heard was the power lines popping. the firefight continuing into the night where winds are expected to fan the flames. liz kreutz, nbc news. >> firefighters are in a tropical storm fighting a huge

fire where it hasn't rained in eight months. you can see the clouds and the smoke plume heading off of the coast. winds are gusting up to 60 miles per hour, and later tonight they get stronger. the fire is going to burn down to the ocean. it will be trying to protect as many structures as possible. we will see the humidity low too. even in downtown l.a. we could have gusts into the 70s, and now let's do a 180 talking about the next major winter storm across the country. dallas to little rock, this could be potentially historic snow amount. dadallas up to five inches. little rock six to seven inches. the east coast will get something, but not as big as the last storm we finished up with. >> now to the latest on the cybertruck explosion in las vegas. stunning new details about the special ops soldier who blew

himself up and artificial intelligence they say he used to plan the attack. a top police shall calling ai in the case a game-changer. >> that is right, lester. this has been one of the most talked about problems by law enforcement officials over the past year and say matthew livelsberger use the chat gpt to search laws and what he would need to set off explosive powder and if he were to use a firearm to set off the explosive what speed a bullet would need to travel to get a specific powder to explode and asked ai how he could avoid detection. police believe this is the first large scale incident planned with the help of chat gpt in the u.s. and has already been used by isis to help them make

anonymous propaganda. the sheriff confirmed and called it a manifesto and said th email is authentic and referenced drones, the chinese spy balloon and other events tied to the military. less than two weeks before taking office again president-elect trump outlining dramatic steps to acquire the papanama canal and greenland an even rename the gulf of mexico. gabe gutierrez has more. >> reporter: in a marathon news conference president-elect trump is not ruling out using economic or military coercion to take the panama canal and acquire greenland. we need them for economic

security. >> trump saying a u.s. decision to return control in the 90s gave too much influence to china and arguing the u.s. needs greenland for national security. >> you have russian ships all over the place. we are not letting that happen. >> reporter: the comments come as donald trump jr. visited greenland today, and the danish prime minister vowed the country is not for sale, but his father laying out an aggressive policy, even wanting to change the name of the gulf of mexico. >> the gulf of america. what a beautiful name. it is appropriate. it is appropriate. mexico, they have to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country. >> reporter: after mocking canada as the 51st state, trump

is using the idea of economics to annex the u.s. ally. >> canada and the united states would really be something. you get rid of that artificially drawn line and take a look at what it looks like. >> justin trudeau responding there isn't a snowball's chance in hell canada would become a part of the united states. overseas trump is warning hamas to release the hostages soon. >> if they are not back by the time i get into office, all hell will break out in the middle east. >> reporter: special counselle jack smith's report cannot be released until an appeals court weighs in. trump called it great news. also a new york appeals judge denied trump's request to delay

sentencing in his hush money case. >> reporter: new fallout after meta's move to eliminate traditional fact checking. >> we reached a point where there is too many mistakes and too much censorships and the fact checkers destroyed more trust than they created. >> reporter: a significant shift from the fact checking put in place after donald trump's first win. now will rely on user input, similar to what elon musk's x platform does. the company will lift restrictions on hot button topics like gender identity and immigration and allow more politics into people's feeds and move trust and safety team from california to ruby red, texas

all days before president-elect retakes the white house. >> the elections feel like a cultural tripping point towards prioritizing speech. >> reporter: four years after facebook suspended more trump's count and months before the president-elect accused zuckerberg of plotting against him in 2020, calling for life in prison if zuckerberg did it again. after trump's win, zuckerberg travelled to mar-a-lago, donated to the trump inaugural fund and now dana white is joining meta's board. >> meta. facebook. i think they have come a long way. some critics concerned. >> reporter: what do you see as the trump factor, if you will here? >> this is obviously a political decision. >> reporter: the trump administration will set key policy on antitrust and ai, and as meta pushed into the world of

artificial intelligence, new tonight nbc news found user generated chatbots violating meta's policy over creating characters based on religious or real life figures. meta took down the individual accounts and say they are improving their detection measures. >> a historic scene in washington as the body of former president jimmy carter arrived at the capitol rotunda. >> reporter: enduring rituals and ceremony, mark saluting a man that valued a humble life. >> he served the people. he left the world better than he

found it. >> reporter: the honor of lying in state brings together the carter family with leaders, dignitaries and the american people to show gratitude and respect. >> to honor an extraordinary man, a man that modeled the honors of virtue and citizenship. >> reporter: the city where jimmy carter governed began 600 miles away at the place where his legacy endures, the carter center in atlanta, the home base of the carter's global humanitarian work. the journey to washington, a presidential aircraft, designated as special air mission 39 carried the late president to joint base andrews, telling the story of the 39th president, a stop at the u.s. navy memorial he authorized in 1980. president carter began his service at the naval academy, and as a nuclear submarine engineer.

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leaving on a jet plane. the activism that marked their music and era was seen in 1963's march on washington, a performance making this bob dylan song a protest classic. ♪ the answer my friend is blowin in the wind ♪ >> the words, the dedication of that march. >> reporter: less well known yarrow's guilty plea to taking indecent liberties with a 14-year-old girl and served less than three months in jail and was pardoned by president carter, but in 2019 he apolized for any pain and injury he caused. actions in contrast to his popular music, a polished sound that helped to shape a generation. anne thompson, nbc news. >> coming up, the amazing

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there is good news tonight from a bakery on chicago's southside where the owner and customer discovered an incredible connection. >> reporter: their connection started over sweets. >> pancakes were the best i ever had. >> reporter: for more than ten years lamar hunter found himself drawn to gimmie some sugar. >> i wanted a little place like cheers, where everybody knows your name. >> reporter: he discovered that he was adopted as a child, and with the help of an investigator they found his biological mother >> can't tell the story without talking god. i was led the entire way. >> reporter: led to lenoir who placed him for adoption when she became pregnant at 17. once the investigator found her she only had the name and number to call, thinking he would be a

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