on. >> plus, firefighter ifs the north bay are among those helping out in the fire zones. and for them, trying to save homes is personal. >> this type of burn reminds me of what happened in fountain grove. >> this is cbs news bay area. with juliette goodrich. >> no break for southern california. tonight, firefighters are battling yet another wild fire. that's on top of the devastating fires that have destroyed an estimated 10,000 homes and other buildings. so let's take a live look at the kenneth fire which has grown to 960 acres. it is spread across the border of los angeles and ventura counties, near la's woodland hills and calabasas neighborhoods. officers have blocked off nearby roads to the public. it is currently the third largest active wild fire

in the state. here is look at at the fire. some of the homes and neighborhoods, the fire started around 2:30 this afternoon. and quickly blew up in size. due to the strong santa ana winds. so the kenneth fire is burning just north of the other major wild fires. the most destructive of them, the eaton fire which burned parts of pasadena and altadena and the palisades fire along the coast. tonight, we are getting a better look at the scope of the devastation. in fact, this is a look all-star the palisades burn zone. you can see home after home reduced to rubble. the two fires alone have burned more than 51 square miles, nearly the size of oakland. the damage could reach $150 billion and it is not just the homes, sewer and power systems along with roads are significantly damaged. and sadly, there are

at least five confirmed deaths and authorities say that number will likely rise. cadaver dogs are checking out locations in malibu where possible human remain haves been reported. in altadena north of la, evacuation orders remain in place as the eaton fire burns out of control. many neighborhoods leveled. and many residents are desperate to return to their homes to survey the damage. >> i wanted to see if anything is left. we had everything like the sentimental things. like my mom passed away. we have only a few things of hers left. my wedding dress, my wedding album. we left everything. we are wearing the same thing in the last two days. >> the fire has grown to more than 13,000 acres. multiple

shelters have been opened. >> good evening katie. >> hey juliette, it has been a tough day as you can imagine. the fire crews themselves, we have a task force from santa rosa. they know all too well what it feels like. some of the team members, and pushing the embers onto another home that is still standing. what they have been doing is trying to tamp everything down. keep everyone safe throughout the night. that is why there are

still mandatory evacuation orders in this area, as hard as that is, those evacuees need to stay out for their own safety. but it can also be really worrisome. >> i'm trying to figure out if that fire is comeing from where i live. i can't get any information from anybody. >> reporter: gayle didn't know where to go this morning to try to find out if her home is still standing. so, she came here along with dozens of other people. >> i don't know what's going on. i don't know. >> reporter: the uncertainty. the not knowing. that's the worst part. she says. and crews from the bay area are working to put out hot spots. trying to protect the homes still standing. >> this wall is holding in all the heat. it will get windy

tonight. reduce it is risk of anybody down the line. >> reporter: lisa and her husband's house was one of the only few standing on their block. >> they are total heros. when we rounded the corner, i couldn't believe my house. my neighbor said i believe your house made it. we couldn't get up here. i said, i think i see the blue. >> reporter: for this engine crew, it is personal. they are from sonoma county. >> you have pockets of unburned. partially collapsed structures. you don't have the complete moonscape. >> reporter: these crews will be working throughout the night

protecting the homes still standing. and also shutting off some of the gas mains feeding small fires. because from a human perspective, these crews know what residents are going through. >> it makes the residents feel a lot better when they don't see a geyser coming out. people see enough fire already. so trying to help out. >> reporter: still dangerous conditions overnight. red flag warnings do not expire until tomorrow. we still have very low humidity which means that if the winds do pick up, this could be very serious. we have already seen another new start fire for today. residents very much on edge. and also very thankful to see these bay area crews driving through these neighborhoods. we have seen crews from alameda counties,

sonoma county, santa rosa, sebastopol. oakland, hayward, fremont. and the list goes on and on. very welcome relief after a couple of very tough days. >> and we are waiting to hear the kenneth fire. is there an urgency right now for firefighters to then go and tackle that one as well? it's like they have so many spots to keeping a watch on. >> reporter: well, and that's what, you know, we heard from firefighters all along. is it is one thing to have one major fire going. that will really tax any agency. it is absolutely impossible to be everywhere all at once. so it turns into a triage of life safety. and there is no ability to save structures. and what is happening now, we have so much mutual aid coming in from all over the west coast, but especially from the bay area

with firefighters who are very experienced in these types of conditions, is that they can come in and save the remaining structures. the crew we were with from sonoma county today said you know, in the initial days of the tubs fire, we would drive through the neighborhood and see three or four homes standing and come back two days later and all of them would be gone. what happened? how does that happen? it eventually caught, that house caught the next, the next, the next. because they have additional resources. they are hoping they can prevent that type of spread and that type of additional damage from happening here tonight. >> yeah. absolutely, katie nielsen. thank you for your reports. see you tonight at 11:00 as well. about 30 miles away in pacific palisades, some people are geting the chance to survey

the destruction firsthand. it is heartbreakingly similar to what we saw. home after home gone. nothing left on some lots. the metal supports of the home. and despite the calmer winds, authorities are still urging people to stay out of the evacuation zones but it appears to be more strongly enforced in some areas than others. and today, authorities implemented a curfew from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. they also emphasized that there will be zero tolerance for looting. they have already made about a dozen arrests in the eaton fire zone. the national guard has been called in to help. let's check in with paul heggen. >> that's been the challenge as the offshore winds while not as strong as the past couple of days, have still been a factor. what has been produced as offshore winds is a swirl in the atmosphere at my feet. that will get pushed a little further off to the east. that mean it is offshore winds will relax as we head through the

next 24 hours. what we will see is gusty conditions. higher elevations, becoming a little bit less gusty as we head through the overnight and early morning hours. still offshore winds at elevation. but closer to sea level, a weak on shore breeze is going to try to return. there are no shower chances in the forecast, but we will take moisture from any source, even if it is just a return of a marine influence. and the winds will remain pretty light throughout most of the day tomorrow. let's return to the floor map and take a look at the fire weather risk. which today was up into the extremely critical category. that's going to subside somewhat tomorrow. but they are not going to be out of the woods. the fire outlook for tomorrow will be elevated to critical. but it will shrink a little bit. push more into the hills above san diego as opposed to the mountainous areas north of los angeles. but still very dry vegetation. offshore winds will burst once again, a little bit on saturday. and a longer period looks likely. monday and tuesday of next week. it is the

thing the fire crews and all of the residents in california do not want to hear. we will talk more about the big picture setup coming up in the full forecast in a few minutes. >> thanks paul. as we have been reporting, hydrants have been running dry and it is something that our crews actually witness last night. they came across a group of neighbors in altadena trying to put out flames on a neighbor's home with buckets of water on the engine. they had to leave to fill up their tanks with more water. because the hydrants were not working. >> everything north of here, there's just the hydrants, they are all dry. so we have to head a little bit south. which is kind of alarming. so we'll be doing something like this. and might run of out water. and we have to leave. come back. or try to get another rig there. >> so the pressing question, could this happen in the bay area during a major emergency? our len ramirez looks at what it takes to to keep our local

water flowing during the critical moments when every second counts. >> reporter: the reports of fire hydrants running out of water in los angeles has raised the concerns of many like robin estrada who wonders if the same could happen in their own san jose neighborhood. >> i know this neighborhood was built in 1980. so who is to say how updated it is or if there are things you need to do. if it works? >> reporter: the water supplied to hydrants comes from numerous sources depending on where you live in the bay area. it could be municipal or private water retailer supplies. pumped from the ground or stored in tanks on hill tops and gravity fed down to the city. but san francisco fire captain justin shore says most systems were not designed to handle the kind of widespread disaster that hit los angeles. >> if you can imagine that's your home. if you and all your

neighbors turned on all your faucets, you will lose water pressure. this was happening on a neighborhood scale. neighborhood to neighborhood. so, we are seeing a depletion of the water in those areas. there's only so much water we can hold in reserve. there is never going to be a tank big enough to address the level of devastation that we are seeing out of los angeles this week. this is something that the city fathers never anticipated happening in many municipalities. >> reporter: san francisco learned from the 1906 earthquake and fire and built redun dennis. . >> that is one of our water tanks underground we can do in case of a disaster. >> reporter: and all the cities are on a mutual aid system that will bring in water tinders

from the surrounding region to boost the supply. robin has been personally touched by the palisades fire. her late grandparents' home is in the neighborhood that burned to the ground and where the hydrants ran down. >> you just grow up thinking that they are always full of water and ready to go. and that wasn't the case in la. it makes you wonder how prepared they are here. >> reporter: it is a question that has become relative and the answers could be different for a small scale fire or the kind of widespread disaster california is now going through. as we have been showing you, the damage is tremendous. coming up, what this means for california's already strained insurance industry. also, cbs is partnering with the red cross to support those impacted by this disaster. if you want to help, visit redcross.org/cbs. call 1-800-red cross or text the number on your screen.

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california's insurance industry was already struggleing in the face of spiraling wild fire risks. now there is growing concern the massive devastation caused by the unfolding fire disaster in la county could push it over the brink. state regulators have been trying to halt a trend of insurance companies pulling their coverage. >> we will be seeing more rate increases and continued challenges for people trying to keep basic protection in their homes. >> the insured losses could top $20 billion. more than twice the amount suffered in the 2018 campfire. until now, the costliest fire ever for the industry. and, coming up, a live look

outside, paul heggen will be back with our forecast. before heading up the mountain, let's see what's up with the weather. the toyota tahoe report is all set. let's take a peek at the map. >> it is a dry weather pattern that has settled in across the entire region. rain free in the bay area. snow free over the last 24 hours in all of the resort ins the sierra. but with the active weather late last year, and last weekend, we have seen a nice base adding up. anywhere from a couple of feet to six feet depending on location, and elevation. and there is more good news as we head into the weekend. temperatures are going to be favorable for the resort to fire up their snow guns and add a little bit of manmade snow to the trails. and temperatures will drop down to the teens and 20s overnight into the 30s each afternoon. saturday and sunday. plenty of sunshine overhead. the wind isn't going to be a problem either. travel weather is looking great. if you will be headed up into the mountains. as always, be safe, have fun. and we'll be here keeping

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wind advisories, air quality alerts and red flag warning remain in effect. red flag warnings through 6:00, they will be likely more issued over the course of the next several days. the strongest burst of offshore winds is likely to develop by monday and tuesday. but let's take a look at the offshore winds. how things are going to evolve as we head through the next couple of days. the good news in the short term is that the offshore

winds will pivot. they will first weaken and become weekly on shore. that doesn't last too long. there will be another brief period on saturday. of those santa ana winds pushing any fire threat downhill and closer to the coast. it will be a fairly narrow window saturday. things should be better sunday. then it develops again monday and tuesday of next week. let's take a look at the hour by hour wind gust we have in store around the bay area. saturday, it will be a little breezy in our neck of the woods as well. not nearly as strong as the winds have been experiencing in southern california. some of the strongest gusts in the 25 to 30 mile-per-hour range from saturday morning through saturday afternoon, it will be a straight offshore wind. the winds aren't as strong. and we have had decent amount of moisture so far in the rainy season. which is a good thing. because we are not going to pick up anything additional the next several days. the seven day forecast remains rain free. the six to ten day outlook from the climate prediction center is rain free. and the eight to

14 day outlook from the climate prediction center keeps us dry through the martin luther king holiday weekend and through the abbreviated workweek. things have been trending in that direction. we will keep looking for the next chance of rain to head our way. right now, clear skies overhead. temperatures in the 50s and 60s made it up to record high temperatures in oakland. numbers are backing off to more reasonable january levels. as we head through the rest of tonight, temperatures dropping down to the 40s , still above average for high temperatures tomorrow. about four to eight degrees above normal. upper 50s to low 60s along the coast to mostly low to mid 60s around the bay, inland, some of the warmest spots inland climbing to the upper 60s in the santa clara valley. warmer spots will be

short of 70 degrees. it is four to eight degrees above normal. the degree every other day, that is the trend we are in for. still above normal for high temperatures on an average basis with plenty of sunshine. not even a hint of a rain chance in store for us around the bay area. of course, we could use some

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another look at the kenneth fire near la's woodland hills and calabasas neighborhoods. in a matter of hours it has grown to 950-acre and is threatening thousands of homes at the border of la and ventura counties. it is being investigated as arson with one person detained. we will continue to follow this. thanks so much for following us. the news continues at 8:00 on pix

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