now at 11:00, the worst of the winds might be behind southern californians, but for many the damage is already done. >> i'm never going to be able to show my kids where i grew up. it's all gone. it's all gone. >> a feeling some in the bay area know all too well. >> we're exhausted by the idea that this is happening to another community. plus multiple san francisco communities losing a valuable

resource, why the nation's largest pharmacy chain says it's closing a dozen more stores. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hi. i'm sara donchey. we try to think of a word to describe the catastrophe that has been unfolding in southern california over the past few days and relentless comes to mind because as one fire starts to come under control, another one pops right up. this is the kenneth fire that was burning in the hills near calabasas. it has already burned 1,000 acres across two different counties and led to a whole new set of evacuation orders and warnings tonight. it is 35% contained. so they are making some progress on that front. we just learned not too long ago that ten people have died as a result of some of these other fires burning in l.a., but that number will probably go up. two confirmed

deaths are from the palisades fire. cadaver dogs have been working in malibu where it seems they may have located a body or some human remains. in the aftermath of the eaton fire 83-year-old rodney nickerson's remains were found after his home burned to the ground in altadena according to his daughter who said he chose to stay behind. >> he went to bed at some point because he's used to getting up at 4:00 a.m. when he was going to lockheed. so at some point he went to bed because he was in bed. >> reporter: it was text messages or you couldn't get through to him? >> the text messages stopped. after a while. the text messages stopped probably at about 11:00 p.m. at about 11:00 p.m. the text messages stopped and the last phone call when i talked to him last was about 9:30, 9:40 and he was walking around with his lantern in the house. chase and i were talking to him. we were on facetime and he was in there with his lantern gathering his stuff and putting stuff up. he had just took his medicine and that was it. >> so sad to think about that.

look at this. in the palisades fire a ring camera caught the moment a home was overtaken by flames. this is from tuesday night. all those flames suddenly came up and the smoke made it nearly impossible to see after that. the palisades fire is still the largest that's burning in l.a. it is already the most destructive fire the county has ever seen according to cal fire. this helicopter video just looks like a disaster zone, like a bomb went off, entire neighborhoods completely wiped off the map. some people finally got to check on their homes today only to learn that their neighborhood looked like that. >> it's really disheartening. i mean our family's in tears. the community's in tears. this is devastating. it's never going to be the same. i'm never going to be able to show my kids where i grew up. it's all gone. turning back to the eaton fire burning in pasadena and altadena and a clear picture now how bad this was, near map images show the difference in this community just days apart.

everything has changed there, too. our katie nielsen is in altadena tonight where she's been checking in with anxious evacuees as well as firefighting crews from here in the bay area helping out. >> reporter: today has really been like whac-a-mole as one firefighter told me earlier today where hotspots pop up and they whack them back down. the goal is to try to make sure none of these fires that are still simmering, smoldering in the remains of these homes really get going again as these winds pick up because then embers can get thrown up into the air and potentially catch homes or businesses on fire that survived the original firestorm. so that is really the plan all night tonight and it's also why this area is still under mandatory evacuation orders, which is causing a lot of people to be very nervous when they're outside the fire lines. >> i'm trying to find out if that fire is coming from where i live, but i can't get any

information from anybody. >> reporter: gail cargill didn't know where to go to morning to try to find out if her home is still standing. so she came here along with dozens of other people to the roadblock on the perimeter of the eaton fire in altadena. >> i don't know what's going on. i'm just -- i don't know. >> reporter: the uncertainty, the not knowing, that's the worst part she says. while inside the fire lines crews from the bay area are working to put out hotspots trying to protect the homes still standing. >> this wall here is just holding in all the heat. it's going to get windy tonight. so we're trying to prevent any embers from getting kicked up when the winds blow in that direction. as long as we get this stuff cool by the time the wind starts blowing reduces the risk of everybody down the line. >> reporter: a welcome sight for homeowner lisa elbee and her husband. her house was only one of a few still standing on her block. >> they're total heroes because when we rounded the corner, i could not believe my

house. one of my neighbors said, "i think your house made it," and i said," you got to be kidding." >> reporter: for this engine crew it's personal. they're from sonoma county, part of the santa rosa fire task force, and scenes like these are all too familiar. >> this type of burn reminds me most of what happened in fountaingrove just because you have pockets of unburned. you have partially collapsed structures. you don't have the complete moonscape like you saw in coffey park. >> reporter: these crews will be working throughout the night protecting the homes that are still standing and also shutting off some of the gas mains that are feeding small fires because from a human perspective these crews know what residents are going through. >> it just makes a lot of the residents feel better when they don't see a big geyser of fire coming out. a lot of times it's not a big risk to

catching things on fire, but definitely gives a lot of people peace of mind when they don't have to worry about fire coming out. they've seen enough fire already. paul, the cbs news data team determined enough people to fill levi's stadium almost five times have been under evacuation orders. so all of these people are displaced or most of them now. progress on the winds is very important to them tonight. >> yes. there's going to be some of that in the short term. long term, we have to worry about another couple bursts of offshore winds a little farther down the line. let's look first at the satellite perspective and hotspots, which there's some good news. we looked for dark spots standing out and there's one of them that's barely apparent. the fact that it's shrunk means the fire isn't burning as intensely as it was the past 24 to 48 hours. we had several

standing out very clearly on this map earlier in the week. further good news is the pattern that produced the gusty offshore winds will shift a bit and tomorrow we get a period of onshore winds and that will allow the fire crews to tap into a little humidity to help boost containment lines around the fires, but then saturday the offshore winds try to kick back in. they won't be as strong, but they will be present. let's go to the monitor and talk about the wind in more details. tonight the winds are still strong in the higher elevations. in the lower elevation is where the onshore winds try to kick back in. higher humidity levels will help the fire crews, but then the offshore winds start to pick up in the higher terrain by saturday afternoon. some of that makes its way downslope, not as bad of a situation as earlier in the week. a quick look at the fire risk on the

map for tomorrow. let's return to the floor map. we have elevated, critical, and extremely critical categories. we don't have the worst category today. we won't have the worst category tomorrow evening on the map and even that critical level will shift a little bit farther south away from los angeles, closer to san diego. there may be new trouble spots tomorrow. we'll talk about the air quality aspect coming up in a few minutes. scenes of all of this destruction in southern california are unfortunately all too familiar for us here in northern california. entire neighborhoods are leveled, as you've seen, with just bricks, twisted metal, and smoldering ash left. some of the destruction looks like what we saw after the camp, tubbs, or coffey fires. we talked with wildfire survivors about the very next steps. >> somebody i know it took five years to get their house rebuilt. >> reporter: pamela says she can't help but feel on high

alert seeing the images coming out of southern california. >> i just snap into a vigilance kind of like i've got to stay abreast of what the latest information is. >> reporter: just like the thousands of people coming home to nothing but ash down there, pamela and her family lost everything when the tubbs fire plowed through their santa rosa neighborhood back in 2017. >> it felt like when, you know, in wizard of oz when she looks out the window and there's a tornado. that's what it looked like. >> reporter: pamela and her family escaped the flames in the nick of time, but their house along with their entire coffey park neighborhood was destroyed. >> it looks like the war zone or a moonscape. i mean it's flat. there's nothing. >> it hit me more today than yesterday. >> reporter: steve rahm also lost his home in the tubbs fire. >> we had my mother-in-law, a dog, my niece, my wife, all of us piled in the car and just sat over there and just in awe looking at everything that's

going on, just what you see today. >> reporter: steve grew up in santa monica. he says the video coming out of that area over the last day has been devastating. >> places that i played, you know, walls i climbed on, places we used to hang out and those are all gone. >> reporter: steve has been doing all he can to help out and give advice to those impacted by the l.a. fires. pamela says she, too, has been in touch with people down south. >> honestly, all of us just want to help and we're exhausted by the idea that this is happening to another community. >> reporter: here in coffey park now more than seven years after the fire the neighborhood is for the most part rebuilt. both pamela and steve say one good thing that came out of the experience is that the people who live here are closer than ever. >> it was about recovering from the fire, but now it's like let's enjoy our neighborhood because social connection is one of the best things you can do for resilience.

>> reporter: pamela and steve know the folks down in l.a. are still in the thick of the disaster. they say all those survivors will most likely go through a lot more heartache before they can get to the stage coffey park is at today, but both say they still want the people of l.a. to know it will come. >> right now it's about comfort, getting yourself a place to live. there's so many more needs right now. hope will come. cbs is partnering with the red cross to raise money for people impacted by the southern california wildfires. you can go to redcross.org/cbs to donate, call 1-800 red cross or text red cross to 90999 to make a $10 donation. in san francisco a dozen walgreens stores will soon be out of commission, but the closures could impact one area more than any other in the city. andrea nakano reports. >> reporter: this is one of the

walgreens set to close next month. while that will leave most neighborhoods with another nearby location, district 10, which covers the hunters point bayview area, will be left with no walgreens at all. this walgreens in the bayview district is one of the last two standing in district 10. both of them, though, are set to close at the end of the month. >> it's a resource here in the community. >> reporter: cynthia ruth comes to this location frequently to get her medications and basic groceries. luckily, she can still drive to other locations, unlike other seniors in her community. >> i think you need a pharmacy in this particular neighborhood. we just need it. >> reporter: ruth spent some time talking with district supervisor walton about the closure and the impacts it will have to the area. >> these two closures are going to be devastating to our community. >> reporter: supervisor walton has talked with walgreens representatives in hopes of saving at least one of the stores. he's been in touch

with san francisco's new mayor daniel lurie about what can be done to keep retailers in the city and attract new ones. just a couple years ago a lucky grocery store moved into the building left vacant by another walgreen's closure in 2019. >> our hope is to do something similar, reach out to pharmacies that provide food and other services and hopefully fill the gap that will be left by walgreens. >> reporter: many of the walgreens slated to close have been hit hard by thieves. this location on market street is where banco brown was shot and killed with a security guard as he tried to walk out for candy. the company sent a statement saying, "increased regulatory and reimbursement pressures are weighing on our ability to cover the costs associated with rent, staffing, and supply needs. it is never an easy decision to close a store." residents say whatever the reason may be, it's not a good look for the city to lose so

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quickly all of this happened and my mom is so angry and so sad and she wishes we had more time. i think everybody wishes they had more time to have taken more stuff and as the days go on, we're processing more. we're finding more. we're realizing we're never going to see this again. you're never going to see your grandmother's crocheted knit stuff again. first alert weather powered by kia. learn more at kia.com. kia, movement that inspires. >> obviously winds dying down, great progress. we need to see that. the danger is not over. we have active fires burning and we don't need more popping up in southern california. >> right. unfortunately, there's going to be a brief bust of offshore wind saturday, there's probably going to be a longer and stronger offshore wind event there again monday and tuesday. there's still problems on the map for tomorrow. a number of watches and warnings are still in effect for southern california. we have the red flag warning until 6:00 tomorrow. air quality advisories, wind

advisories and then more of these types of warnings and advisories are necessary perhaps saturday and almost certainly by monday and tuesday. want to talk about the air quality aspect and turn on the satellite perspective from earlier today as of 1:00 p.m. when the skies were cloud-free largely across california, but there is that plume of smoke reaching off southern california. the offshore winds have been pushing a lot of that smoke over the pacific as opposed to keeping it over land, but the winds are going to shift a bit through the next 24 hours. let's look on the monitor at the air quality forecast over the next 24 hours. while the air quality has been unhealthy to even hazardous, that shift means it's going to be delivering that kind of air to other parts that maybe have been spared it so for because as the onshore winds try to reestablish themselves, that smoke plume will drift in a different direction. fire crews will have to account for the shift in the winds. they'll welcome the onshore breeze, not necessarily the change in direction and the winds will shift again by

saturday with the offshore winds reestablishing themselves. it's a complicated situation. it's going to remain so heading into early next week. the winds will get a little gusty around the bay area on saturday as well but not problematic. they will be offshore in the 20 to 30-mile-an-hour range from saturday morning into the afternoon and evening. i don't think it's going to be a big condition which is nice because we don't have any rain in the forecast, good thing we added up in november and december because the forecast is rain-free over the next seven days and if we had a 14-day chart, i think that would be rain-free as well. temperatures are backing down slowly, 50s across the entire bay area and that is unusually mild for 11:00 on a january evening. as we head through the rest of tonight, we'll see the temperatures only dropping down to the 40s, maybe a couple spots in the 30s and then we warm back up, not as much as we did today. temperatures today were in the 60s and 70s, set a couple records in downtown oakland and redwood city,

tomorrow a mix of upper 50s and low 60s along the coast. pretty much everybody else from the north side to east side and east bay are in the low to mid-60s and the warm spots in the upper 60s, some of the warmest locations maybe threatening 70 degrees. temperatures will be pretty similar saturday and sunday. we have the breezy conditions on saturday. the wind dies down a bit sunday, might get a beat breezy monday and tuesday. the strongest winds will be in southern california. our temperatures will be closer to average by this time next week but a bit above normal and hardly a cloud in the seven-day forecast, much less a raindrop. we'll keep looking for those next rain chances even though they're still well beyond the scope of the seven-day forecast at this point. straight ahead in sports, something special in berkeley tonight. and the dubs back in draymond green's home area even when steph curry had a cold shooting night. the rest

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needed it better than the dubs? they lost the last two games at home badly. first quarter spotlight on trayce jackson-davis, put the biscuit in the basket here, seven warriors in double figures tonight, tjd with 14 points, ten rebounds and they kept feeding him. that frontcourt duo of gui santos and tjd delivered in the first half. teammate ball here, jackson-davis setting up santos for all three of these points. i told you about steph curry. he went 2 for 14 from deep, but he found his mark here, found as he let it go, set up a four-point play. last minute up four dennis schroder put it away and sealed it for golden state. warriors won it 107-104. they'll head to indianapolis to face the pacers tomorrow night. nfl, wildcard weekend is upon us. the southern california fires have resulted in monday's game between the

rams and vikings be moved from l.a. to arizona. irish dancing leads off the college football semis. notre dame needed the luck of the irish against penn state, down seven with five minutes left. irish quarterback connecting with jayden grayhouse, tied the game up 24-24. under a minute nittany lions tried to get into field goal range, but the quarterback drew allar was hit as he threw, intercepted by christian grey in penn state territory and that set up a 41-yard kick for the game and a spot in the title game. north dame won a thriller 27-24, the fighting irish back in the national championship game for the first time since 2013. cal women tonight, the splash sister, makes a lot of three's. see what i mean?

24th-ranked bears hosted number 21 nc state and a few minutes later the fellow splash sister suarez got hot, double-double, 17 points, 12 rebounds, two of the top three-point shooters in the country. fourth quarter kayla williams made a couple acrobatic shots. they beat 19th-ranked alabama earlier. they beat the wolfpack tonight 78-71. the bears are 15-2 and 11-0 at home. you know what they said after the game? you know it. you tell the story. you tell the whole wide world this is bear territory. they are red hot. >> they are. i feel like you doing highlights just sort of energizes me on a down day. i need you to narrate me brushing my teeth and bleaching the sink and such. >> no coffee needed with me. just hang with me. >> never has been that way, vern. thank you. when we come back, we'll have an update on the fires burning across southern california and what could be in store for the next few days. stay with us.

the toyota tahoe report is ready. let's head over to the map. >> it's been a calm weather pattern in terms of any precipitation, whether it's rain at sea level or snow in the high elevations, zero the past 24 hours, good travel weather on u.s. 50 and i-80. the base is good, 2 feet to 6 feet plus depending on location and elevation. the temperatures are going to be favorable this weekend, not only for getting out and enjoying the ski slopes, also for the resorts to make their own snow firing up the snow guns. we'll see temperatures at night in the teens and 20s, daytime highs in the 30s. as always, stay safe. have fun. we'll keep you

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some final reporting and thoughts on these fires, so 10,000 structures have burned. at least ten people have died. that number could climb. i guess, paul, i'm optimistic perhaps the worst could be behind them in southern california because we know when the winds were the strongest, they couldn't attack this from the air. >> to be able to do that tonight and tomorrow and even top night, a nice 36-hour window, they may still be able to saturday even though the winds will pick up a bit and sunday looks okay. we're

worried about monday. it won't be as strong as tuesday and wednesday. that's a once in a decade kind of wind event, so that won't recur, but it doesn't have to be something that bad to ground most of the air assets the fire crews rely on because they can deliver water and flame retardant to places the ground crews can't access. that's the wildcard in all this. cbs is partnering with the red cross to raise money for those impacted by the southern california wildfires. you can call 1-800 red cross or text red cross to 90999. thank you so much r watching! "the >> president donald trump says he would impose high tariffs on denmark unless they hand over greenland to the united states.

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