nbc bay area news tonight. how do you rebuild and what mistakes can they avoid? we're joined by the mayor of paradise. his town was destroyed by wildfire six

years ago. the firsthand advice he's giving is la prepares to rebuild. also, how a simple watering device made all the difference for one family. we want people to save their homes. we saved our homes. we want to share our experience with them. and the clock is ticking down to that tiktok ban. could elon musk step in and save the app and the other platform users are flocking to fill the possible void? good evening. this is nbc bay area news tonight i'm raj mathai. there is some encouraging news in the fire zones. very little new fire activity around the palisades fire. but the red flags are still up. jeff is tracking the wind and warnings. we'll get to jeff and our coverage in just a moment. we want to start, though, with some of our local headlines that we're tracking. a two year old girl is in critical condition after getting caught in the crossfire of a gun

battle. this happened in vallejo. and that is alarming. you can hear the gunfire. that's video captured by a neighbor's surveillance camera. the gun battle left bullet holes across the neighborhood. vallejo pd tells us the toddler and her mom just driving through the area of moorpark avenue and sawyer street on sunday night. that's when at least one bullet hit the two year old girl. bullets also narrowly missed an eight year old boy sitting on his couch at home. our officers are determined to find those responsible and bring them to justice. this is a sad and senseless act of violence and it is uncalled for and it will not be tolerated in our community. neighbors say they are scared and frustrated. they've been calling for a larger police presence there in vallejo. also

this evening, the long awaited deal to sell the oakland coliseum. it's taken another big step closer to reality. within the past 90 minutes, the alameda county board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a term sheet greenlighting the sale of the coliseum to the african american sports and entertainment group. this vote means the deal could now be finalized within 30 days. this is hugely important because the city of oakland is relying on their share of the money to help balance its budget and reverse some of the recent cuts, but oakland won't see a dime until the deal becomes final. now, the total sale price between the county and city of the coliseum to this new group is 125 million bucks. let's get to our coverage now down in southern california. sadly, the death toll is rising. crews have found the remainsf another person buried in the ashes. at least 25 people now believed to be dead. 13 people remain missing. tonight. the

palisades fire is up to 18% containment. the eaton fire, which is near pasadena, remains at 35% containment. it's now being called the second most destructive wildfire on record here in california, behind the 2018 fire in butte county. the good news here, crews say there is little fire activity and visible flames around the perimeter. however, the fire is still putting out a lot of heat and they're working to make sure it stays contained. the atf that's a federal agency is now on the scene trying to determine exactly how these fires started. was it power lines? was it arson or something else? as for the winds, not too bad overnight, but they're expected to pick up tonight. let's bring in nbc's jennifer bjorklund, who joins us from pacific palisades. jennifer. los angeles just has to get through one more night of a truly terrifying forecast. these gusty winds are now expected to hit their peak with

this updated forecast from 3 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow. i want to show you some of the damage that we've had from the fires already. this is pacific palisades and historic monument, the business block building in the heart of this little town, dedicated in 1924 and one of more than 30 historically significant structures destroyed in these fires, including will rogers ranch and the zane gray estate. right now, the fires have not grown in acreage despite gusty winds. today, we did have one new fire pop up overnight monday to the north, which was handled quickly. but all over southern california, people are packing up just in case. monoring the cal fire map, and fire crews are fanned out in strike teams and the highest risk neighborhoods, most of those preemptively with their power cut because of the danger of arcing power lines. we do have the update. sad news from the eaton fire that they have identified one more set of remains. so the death toll from these fires now stands at 25. in

pacific palisades, i'm jennifer bjorklund, nbc, bay area news. jennifer. thank you. we mentioned that death toll could sadly even rise more. the winds are tricky to track. jeff jns us now. what are you seeing down there? we're talking about these overnight hours again, a lot of anxious people there. and winds right now 20 to 40. we could get some gusts overnight getting up to 60, maybe 70 for some of the highest peaks. but overall this does not look nearly as gusty as what we went through last week when those winds were up to 100mph. nonetheless, still dangerous conditions. we have the eaton fire and the palisades fire, which are the hottest zones in southern california right around the palisades fire. there hasn't been too much hotspotting today, which again, is good news. wind gusts in the area right now. 20 to 40 out towards the eaton fire. 15 to 35 mile per hour gusts near altadena. then there was another fire last night called the auto fire between ventura and oxnard. this has some higher containment numbers. it's at least 50 acres. gusts there 10 to 20. and this

is a more of a marshy area. it's not super hilly. so that has helped firefighters starting to get on top of that. so as we take a look at the wind here tonight, it's 20 to about 35 for lower elevations, higher elevations getting up to about 50. 10 p.m. we stay with those gusty winds in the mountains into tomorrow morning, maybe up to that 60 70 mile per hour range. then tomorrow night into thursday. there you go. watch this. as that wind starts to get into the 5 to 15 mile per hour range. so tomorrow night into thursday this is all going to be out of here. raj we hope that happens. thank you jeff. let's talk about the money now. could federal aid for california end up being granted conditionally meaning strings could be attached? speaker of the house mike johnson thinks so. blaming these wildfires on what he says are issues with our local leadership. you've also heard us talk about our concerns with the governance of the state of california, state and local, and to the extent that there is complicity involved and the

scope of the disaster, then we think that's something that needs to be carefully regarded. you've heard the word conditions on aid. we're not we're not projecting in advance what this will be. first of all, you have to understand the fires are still raging and no one knows what the ultimate cost will be. it takes some time to make estimates and all of that. he's choosing his words wisely there. but you see where he's going. that was speaker johnson's response after he was told, he told cnn that there could be conditions on any aid. here's east bay congressman john garamendi. response. i was shocked to wawatch on television the elected leader of this house, suggesting that federal assistance to deal with that tragedy would be conditioned. it didn't specify on what, but i would remind that gentleman that $120 billion has gone to louisiana over the last 20 years dealing with the tragedies of

katrina, new orleans and the like. and that's not the total count. it would be unconscionable for this house to place any condition on the necessary assistance that americans should give. governor newsom last week invited incoming president trump to visit the devastation in the southland, but did not receive a response yet. today, house speaker johnson said both he and mr. trump have plans to visit the area, but no specifics have been announced. now, in addition to the politics and the destruction is a lot of heartache and some folks know exactly how excruciating that is firsthand. 475 miles away from the fire zone is the town of paradise, near chico. in 2018, we saw paradise erupt in flames. more than 150,000 acres burned. fueled by dry conditions and heavy winds, firefighters were simply overmatched. a similar

script to what's happening in southern california. paradise is now in the midst of a rebirth, something that altadena and pacific palisades will need to do. joining us now is the mayor of paradise, steve crowder. mayor crowder, thanks for making some time for us. you're a very valuable resource in this time. let me just start by asking, how difficult is this for you to see what's unfolding down in southern california? this was probably the most difficult one i faced since the camp fire, and i've been through a lot of them. we had our daughter lost, lost her home in altadena as well. so it's really kind of a personal one for us. as soon as they get probably a little more settled, we're we're happy to help more. and yes, i am personally planning on making a trip down there and visiting to offer our condolences and any help that we might be able to offer. you can, you can you can run a master's class on this. what guidance,

mister mayor, can you give when it comes to coping and rebuilding of a town? well, i think, you know, no matter what anybody tells you or what you see as you walk through the town, after it's cleared, it's going to look like a nuclear bomb went off. but i can tell you firsthand there is light at the end of the tunnel. you will get through. you will rebuild. we're proof of that. and i know as you walk through that town and you look around, it won't look like that's possible. but it is. this is a delicate question. is there a setback or mistake you all made as a city when it comes to rebuilding? and what would that be in terms of helping out in the future here for these other cities? well, i mean, i'm sure we made mistakes along the way. i'm pretty proud of the way we handled things and where we're at today with our recovery. we're six years in.

we've got a 20 year rebuild in front of us, and we're about a third back in population and about a third back in housing stock. we are the fastest growing city in california. last two years running. so i think, you know, a lot of it was was trial and error. but we were we have a great staff. we had a lot of help from our our congressman and our assemblyman. they've been with us throughout this whole process. even today. so we've done a long term plan recovery. we got citizens input, which i think was the most important thing we could have done. and what we're doing now is trying to implement what what our citizens want. essentially, we all live in a fire zone here in california, but specifically in paradise and pacific palisades and altadena. has

there come a time soon after the fires when you all just kind of looked in the mirror and said, do we want to stay in this community? we definitely had citizens that that that felt that way and haven't come back. some have left and decided that, no, they do want to come back and have come back anyway. personally, right after the fire, i looked my wife and i said, we're coming back. and that was my mindset from the get go. this was our home, this was our community. it's a place we love. and this, this. there was no doubt in our minds that we were coming back. final question for you. we see so much help and outpouring. we did it in paradise for your town. we're doing it now in altadena and pacific palisades. how important did you feel that community outreach from the state and from the country? oh, absolutely. i mean, we got it from from other countries as well. and, you

know, we want to share our knowledge and our help to these communities that are suffering and going through this now, because if we can make it easier, it kind of takes a little bit of sting out of what we went through. mayor steve crowder, appreciate your leadership. thanks for joining us tonight. thank you for having me. well, here's something else that caught our attention. what if there's a way to actually protect your home in a wildfire? amid the devastation in the palisades, some homes are still standing, and one family is crediting its homemade sprinkler system, hetty chang, with our sister station in la. shows us this is where we. where we set up our sprinkler for quite a bit of time, patrick gosling tells us he's certain two things saved his father's palisades highlands home. we cleared out brush that was on our property all the way here, and if you see there all the trees, everything was cleared on the bottom,

everything dry and dead. we cleared out. the other thing is now sitting in his father's garage. it's a water pump that's fueled by a honda engine. consider it a generator powered, home made sprinkler system that you hook up to your swimming gosling's father purchased it from someone online last summer for $3,700. i envisioned this being burning, and i said to myself, this is a catastrophe to happen. this is video of t family's test run a few months ago. at t time, they couldn't have known one of the most devasting fires in history would race through their neighborhood. when we came back on thursday, we were so shocked to see this tree that had caught fire and all this hillside below. and that's when it occurred to us that there is no doubt in our mind that if this wasn't soaking for five hours,

that the fire would have lit up and burnt everything. google ran the equipment for ten hours after the palisades fire started tuesday. they drained their 20,000 gallon pool and the one next door. their homes are among the few dozen in their highlands neighborhood that survived. the googling say the feel for their community, and so many who lost everything they do believe luck was on their side, but also feel their home watering system saved their home. people should be better prepared for future fires. fires aren't going anywhere. we want people to save their homes. we saved our home. we want to share our experience with them. amazing hetty chang reporting. everyone with a pool in a fire zone should consider that. well, up next, we're less than a week away from tiktok possibly being banned in the u.s. so where are people going? instead? what other app will be joined by scott b

i guess what i'm looking for from you is, i mean, i know how the fire affected me, and there's always a constant fear that who's to say something like that won't happen again? that's fair. we committed to underground, 10,000 miles of electric line. you look back at where we were 10 years ago

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the clock is ticking. you might know this. on tiktok, there are now rumors that elon musk may step in and buy the app. musk is everywhere, but tiktok called the report, quote, pure fiction. aside from the rumors, here are the facts the u.s. ban of tiktok is looming for many tiktok users, there's a new alternative. it's called red note, and there's some irony

here. tiktok is facing a ban because of its concerns that it is owned by a chinese company, and that could provide sensitive user information to the chinese government. red note is also owned by a chinese company and is often described as the chinese tiktok users tell us, though they appreciate how easy it is to use. and since most current users speak mandarin, they appreciate how easy it is to add subtitles to the posts. let's bring in our business and tech reporter scott budman. so quick question here. why would people jump to another chinese app? wouldn't they just jump to instagram or something else? yeah, it's funny to me. roger that. they call it the chinese tiktok. that's really what we're talking about here is tiktok's identity. yes, most of them will jump to places like instagram, but a lot of people are saying, hey, we want to try another chinese app. not really aware that that is the one reason that tiktok might go away. and as we learned, red note would go away for the same reason at the same time as tiktok. that is what the law says. okay, where do we stand on tiktok's chances now surviving in america past january 19th? so that's in a few

days from now. that's before the inauguration, which is monday, january 19th, is this sunday. two things that we'll know probably tomorrow, because wednesday is when the supreme court releases its decisions. do they uphold the law that would ban tiktok on the 19th? if so, the only thing that could get in the way would be a company stepping in to y, we have a deal. an american company that is to buy tiktok from bytedance and spin it into an american version. that would be a very expensive deal. this is a company worth a whole lot of money. so one of those two things will still wait for. but the likelihood is on the 19th, tiktok is banned from the apple and google app store. i'm just have a hunch that with the with the president coming in, donald trump, that he's going to want to make something happen. this is a huge social cultural movement here. i think he does want something to happen. he has a lot of really, really rich business contacts, as we know. and it wouldn't surprise me if right now, he and some of his people are trying to put together something of a deal.

hypothetically, larry ellison, a trump friend, a friend of elon musk, a multibillionaire could be a hero. oracle already owns a stake in tiktok. they could do this. other companies could do this, but so far, no one has. it's going to be an exciting few days. we will watch it very closely. thank you. you bet. let's take you outside now. live. look from one of our live cams from oracle park. this is from our center field camera. looking at the marina there in

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junior fled his home in the pacific palisades last week, taking only his dog and insulin with him. he's a type one diabetic. he left all ten of his olympic medals behind. he had to. the clock was ticking. over the weekend, he posted the aftermath on instagram. he captioned it having love is more important than having things. all worldly possessions are gone. the ioc has vowed to replace all of his olympic medals five gold, three silver and two bronze. so a bit of silver lining for a celebrated decorated olympic hero. jeff is back with uso talk about the forecast. hi, jeff. hey. and we are looking at some dry weather for us with this area of high pressure across the pacific and low pressure in southern california, that's going to keep the wind in place. so i did want to show you that warning. you know, we're all watching that wind extremely closely here until 6 p.m. tomorrow. red flag

fire warning isolated gusts at the highest peaks could get up to 70mph. and here's the other thing. we may get into more wind here as we head through next monday and tuesday, 20 to about 50mph. let's get you more details on that microclimate forecast, and ll show you what we can expect back here in the bay area. we'll start it off chilly temperatures in the 30s and 40s under mostly sunny skies, so make sure to have that heavier jacket out. then as we move through the day for tomorrow, it's going to be beautiful. look at this. down here across the south bay, close to 70 degrees in san jose and morgan hill. 66 in concord, 6 65 in napa and low 60s san francisco down to half moon bay. but what we really need is some rainfall here across california. high pressure is going to keep it dry through the 22nd of this month, but we might start to get into some rainfall chances by the 24th. that is next friday. so not this friday but the following friday. so we're going to be all over that. we see

those rain chances increase. we'll continue to keep you updated. otherwise this weekend a mix of sun and clouds, temps in the low 60s. and we'll be watching out for that wind chance next monday. back here in the bay area could mean some 15 to 40 mile per hour wind gusts, so still a very tense 24 hours down there in southern california for sure. crossing our fingers. thank you jeff. up next is access hollywood. and then in prime time here on nbc at 8:00, saint denis medical, followed by night court at 830. deal or no deal island at nine. and then our 11:00 news, live and local. that's going to do it for us here at 7:00, for everyone here at nbc bay area, including our producer, lisa principi. thanks for joining us. we hope you enjoy your evening and we hope to see you back at 11.