when they get there. and even when their houses are still standing, the lucky ones, they soon realize the town itself that supported all those homes is in ruins. >> i can't. i can't. oh my god, oh my god. everything is gone. >> reporter: in the neighborhood where galena skaya built her dream home and started a family, you can hear the anguish as she returned to find almost every house destroyed, including her own. >> i'm still processing the gravity of the entire situation, just walking down the streets and seeing cars inflamed, full houses leveled. >> reporter: her 9-year-old daughter minnie left home for school tuesday morning and now won't ever get the chance to go back. what do you think you're going to miss about that house? >> i'm going to miss my room, my stuffies. i'm going miss my neighborhood, walking, going to the bluffs. >> reporter: not far away on a

high point overlooking the flames, we found kevin pazarande. >> i was born here. this is a once in a lifetime not just fire, but weather event. >> reporter: his home, as he was able to spot it from the hillside, is still there, at least for the moment. but other evacuees came to this very same hill feeling less optimistic. matt baker pulled up in the very same car he evacuated in, 90% sure his house is gone. >> i was going remodel the house in malibu starting in -- i had all my belongings and property there. >> reporter: after generations here, he's not sure what's next. >> reporter: you have stuff in the car here. what's your plan now? >> i don't know. >> reporter: as we spoke to matt, austin milosh saw our cameras and came by desperate for news about his house in an area known as the alphabet streets. "it doesn't look good," i told him, sharing a note i received from another resident.

>> i saw a lot of smoke before i left so i figured a lot of stuff is going to go down. but it's more i want to know. >> it looks like a war zone. it looks like something out of a movie. you can't believe it's happening to you. >> reporter: for him and his friends, it feels now like their whole childhoods are gone. >> we're just going on instagram and twitter, you see our high school in flames, our football field is in flames. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: also unbelievable for many here the lack of water. multiple people told us the firefighters had nothing in the hydrants for hours. >> there seemed like there was no water. there was a shortage of water. >> reporter: here is county supervisor lindsey horvath admitting some hydrants, as she put it, were challenged. >> what our public works folks on the county side said when we build this kind of infrastructure, it's usually built for a couple of houses in the neighborhood to be burning at the same time. certainly nothing of this magnitude. >> our elected officials are our

guardians, and they have massively failed us. >> reporter: for galena skaya, there is no excuse. she wants hearings and eventually every politician responsible voted out. >> we're going rebuild, and that seems so far away for us now. but i just don't know how you bounce back. >> that was tony dokoupil in pacific palisades. stay with us. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

fans of the netflix hit "peaky blinders" are already looking forward to a new movie that follows the life and sometimes of their favorite british gangsters. the show created by steven knight was a streaming hit for six seasons. it made knight famous around the world and especially in his hometown. dana jacobsen paid a visit. >> reporter: what is it like to have this, i guess, announcing your presence? >> well, it's an announcement to the present. it's a statement, really. >> reporter: in birmingham, england, the peaky blinders are keeping watch. this mural the perfect package to steven knight's digbeth loc studios, a passion project for the birmingham born screenwriter behind the netflix hit. >> birmingham is a city where there is a city with a lot of tagging, people doing stuff.

anything left to do with peaky is left alone. >> reporter: undeniable respect for knight's streaming series, which is as intertwined with the studio as knight himself, including the lot where we sat down to talk. >> my dad used to work here as a blacksmith shoeing horses many, many years ago, and he used to bring me here as a kid to turn the handle on the forge, and eat bacon and egg cooked. got lots of memories. but just the fact that basically, peaky has come home, to digbeth. this is where the original, original peaky blinders used to roam. >> reporter: those originals a street gang which operated here from the 1890s through the 1920s. >> if it weren't for mills and said police are letting him through. >> reporter: on screen we know them as the shelbys. their story's a mythologyized study of the past. including some of knight's own family lore. >> my dad's uncles were peaky blinders. they took a little bit. >> reporter: your mom has an interesting background as well.

>> yeah, my mom was a bookie's runner when she was 9 years old. in other words, they would use children to take the bets. my mom would walk down a street less than a mile from here with a basket of washing, and people would walk in the other direction with a piece of paper with their code name, the name of the horse, the odds, and the coin and drop it in. and then she would get to the book makers. there was dog on a chain that was exactly short enough to look somebody just about there. >> reporter: when it came to knight's own childhood, what was it like growing up? >> not normal. the normal upbringing. it wasn't a house with any books in it. and it wasn't a house where going to school was considered to be particularly important. but it gave me a glimpse of a world, sort of the last of a victorian world that still existed in birmingham at the time. >> reporter: when did you know you wanted to write? >> from an early age, i always wanted to write stuff. i write something when i think it was a poem when i was about 10.

a teacher read it and said you're good at this. and just having a teacher say it, it was like having an official stamp. i am definitely, definitely good at this. >> reporter: he started his career in radio and tv, a co-creator of the original "who wants to be a millionaire" in 1998. five years later, his first movie gained critical acclaim, writing the screenplay for "dirty pretty things". >> you know i can't. ask me three times. four. >> in the words of leonard cohen, all you need to be a writer is arrogance and inexperience. and i have lots of those. in other words, i didn't know what you're not supposed to do. and so there were no rules to worry about. it was a very unusual baptism into the movie world, because it was effortless, actually. ♪ >> reporter: "peaky blinders" would come a decade later. >> so what do we do now? >> just give the order. >> reporter: a global sensation

with an unexpected fan base. >> by the order of the peaky blinders, this rare right hand by silk shelton. >> i think the moment i knew something very different was happening is when my agent got a call from snoop dogg's agent. ♪ comes a toll, handsome man in a dusty black coat with a red white hand ♪ >> and so we were in the hotel room in covent garden, and he is talking about his life. and he's telling me that, you know, he felt a resonance with the show and his life and how he progressed through youth in south central. so there suddenly south central, south birmingham are being connected. i thought wow. this is really not what i expected. >> i had no intention of performing again. not for you or anyone else. >> reporter: another story knight hopes will resonate, his latest film, "maria," based on the life of opera great maria

callas, the queens born classically trained singer, known as much for her tumultuous offstage life as for her beautiful works on it. the film stars angelina jolie. >> my mother made me sing. onassis forbade me to sing. and now i will sing for myself. >> i think she is a brilliant actor with a relevant life to the subject who really commits to playing that role. it just means you don't have to do certain things. you don't have to write certain things because you know it will be there. >> it's such a great story. >> reporter: as for what attracted knight to callas' story in the first place -- >> i'm always attracted to things that reflect the absurdity and unpredictability and chaos in reality, because i think as a writer of fiction, you are sort of obliged to take what really happens and make it

seem more logical. and maria's life, especially towards the end is so profound. it was so full of significance. and of course she was a genius who had been given a gift. she was from a background that no one expected her to be that, which i always empathize with. >> reporter: for knight, it is his improbable background he continues to embrace at digbeth loc studios. >> what we're trying to do is keep the integrity of this area, what this place looks like. you know, it's industrial. it's what i think of as tribeca before it became tribeca. seriously. >> reporter: knight envisions the area as an artist community, a playground for all kinds of productions, including his just wrapped "peaky blinders" movie which picks up where the series left off. >> i'm guessing you people all decided i'm the only person who could ever kill thomas shelby is thomas shelby himself.

>> well, poor tommy. he is not through it yet. so we find him during world war ii. and can't really give away much more than that other than he has some unfinished business. >> what was it like to continue the story, to not have to end it there, after having so much success? >> i think it's not up to -- it sounds weird. it's not up to me to end. it's almost like you're in dark and you're following this road. and when the rope ends, fine. but it's still going, so i'll keep following it. >> that was dana jacobsen with steven knight. stay with us. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

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hello and thanks so much for staying up with us. i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and here are the top stories on "cbs news roundup." wildfires are still raging out of control in los angeles. president biden says it's the most widespread and devastating fire in california's history. winds are picking up and expected to blow stronger in the coming days, spreading the flames. and we have extensive coverage from los angeles with reporters across the region. more neighborhoods in los angeles are being evacuated as wildfires continue to burn and spread. flames have leveled more than 54 square miles and destroyed thousands of structures. at least five major fires have ripped through the city, and at least ten people have died. officials say that death toll is likely to climb as recovery crews still work through miles of wreckage. this is what it looks like right now.

this is the pacific palisades neighborhood. street after street, the scale of destruction here is staggering. an apocalyptic scenes from the eaton fire on the other side of the city in altadena. fire officials say more than 4,000 structures are destroyed in this one area. and now we're learning that yet another fire has broken out, this one is called the kenneth fire in the woodland hills neighborhood to the west. l.a. city officials expect this one to grow rapidly. and late thursday evening, a firefighter plane collided with a drone while battling the palisades fire. fire officials say the aircraft landed safely and no one was injured. for the very latest on all of this, we turn to cbs' ashley sharp reporting from inside the fire zone. >> reporter: as winds strengthen again in the los angeles area, mayor karen bass made clear that the battle against the deadly wildfires is far from over. >> there is a new fire, unfortunately, in west hills,

pushing into ventura county. and we are expecting this fire to rapidly spread due to high winds. >> reporter: the kenneth fire started thursday afternoon in the woodland hills neighborhood. leaders urging people to continue to listen to evacuation warnings. >> you might think you can outrun a fire. you are not going outrun these fires. >> reporter: the two biggest wildfires, the palisades fire along the coast and the deadly eaton fire about 30 minutes inland are raging out of control, leaving behind widespread destruction. behind me a church still stands, but to my left, one is reduced to rubble. this is the altadena community church. the sanctuary is no longer there. >> that's our house. it's -- you can tell it's next, and we're getting out. >> reporter: president biden says more help is on the way. the federal government will cover 100% of the costs for six months. ashley sharp, cbs news, altadena, california.

and now for more details on the eaton fire in altadena, where officials say more than 4,000 structures have been destroyed. cbs' kris van cleave spoke with people returning to what's left of their homes. >> reporter: towering flames threaten to overtake the highest point in los angeles as well as the telescopes and key transmission towers atop mount wilson. the wind-fueled eaton fire rained destruction down on the neighborhoods below, damaging or destroying more than 4,000 structures and killing at least five, including 66-year-old victor shaw. >> when they found him, he had a garden hose in his hand. >> reporter: he tried to fight back the fire? >> i believe he did. he wasn't in the best of health, but i know that he probably fought with all his will. >> reporter: 82-year-old rodney nickerson died in his bed. his daughter cam mikko says he wanted to stay. >> he said altadena has been through some stuff, and i'm going to be all right. >> reporter: these are before and after images of at dona.

it was an emotional moment for those who came home to find only rubble. >> i was holding on to every bit of hope i had that that would save my house. >> reporter: this is what it looked like when mira chow left her home. when you saw this, what went through your mind? >> i've lost everything. yeah. pictures, memories. >> reporter: sifting through the ashes today, a small treasure, this ceramic church survived the fire. >> ten years ago when my husband passed, we bought this house so we could start again. and now it's almost like deja vu. >> reporter: firefighters are going block by block, looking for hot spots and wetting those down because high winds are again in the forecast. l.a. sheriff says he expects the number of damaged or destroyed homes and injuries to grow before the danger passes. kris van cleave, cbs news,

altadena, california. and los angeles mayor karen bass is facing sharp criticism over budget cuts made to the city's fire department. cbs' jonathan vigliotti put some hard questions to the mayor. >> reporter: when you see these images over pacific palisades, it's clear, the extent of loss is horrifying. what's also coming into focus are some hard truths. a month before the disaster, l.a.'s fire chief kristin crowley warned of the impact of millions of dollars in budget cuts. the city's fire commission sent mayor karen bass a report december 17th claiming the fire department's ability to respond to large scale emergencies such as wildfires is significantly diminished, increasing risks to both public and firefighters' safety. >> i don't know if they're trying to get reinforcements or something, but they didn't stop. >> reporter: it's what we saw repeatedly. >> this home is going to go up in flames. there are not firefighters around here. >> reporter: we put the question to mayor bass.

>> mayor, l.a. county is in a panic state for several hours we watched as hundreds of homes in a neighborhood burned to the ground. we did not see a single fire engine. there was fear and there was a lot of confusion. shortly after the fires started, a press release was put out warning of this fire behavior. my question to you is what explains this lack of preparation and rapid response? >> let me just say first and foremost my number one focus, and i think the focus of all of us here with one voice is that we have to protect lives. we have to save lives, and we have to save homes. we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked, what doesn't work. >> reporter: with the national weather service warning of life-threatening and destructive winds, the state of california prepositioned 105 firefighters to southern california. the morning after, 1400 additional firefighters were deployed. >> we have a structures being

threatened in the next 20 minutes. >> reporter: as roads became grid locked with evacuees, firefighters urged other residents to shelter in place. that includes this hillside neighborhood where many homes burned to the ground. and this is what little is left of an entire condo where the residents were told to shelter in place. it's unclear if there are any fatalities here in the palisades. cadaver dogs are going to be brought out in the coming days. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, los angeles. when "cbs news roundup" continues, the state funeral for late president jimmy carter who has now been laid to rest in his hometown in georgia.

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former president jimmy carter has been laid to rest in his hometown of plains, georgia. a private funeral followed a public ceremony in washington with presidents past, present, and future on hand. cbs' mark strassmann has more. >> let us pray. >> reporter: in a fitting farewell, jimmy carter's state funeral had the majesty of washington's national cathedral and the piety you'd expect for a man of profound faith. but like carter, this solemn goodbye had flashes of humor. >> there's an old line to the effect that two presidents in a room is one too many. >> reporter: what about fife presidents? they filed in among generations of washington a-listers. in the second row the clintons side by side with the bushes. barack obama shared a laugh with donald trump. minutes earlier, an awkward run-in. trump shook hands with mike

pence, his estranged vice president. president biden's eulogy -- >> jimmy carter's enduring attribute, character. character, character. >> reporter: saluted his friend of more than 50 years. >> it's the strength to understand that everyone should be treated with dignity, respect, that everyone, and i mean everyone deserves an even shot. >> reporter: as he left the altar, mr. biden touched the casket of his old friend, jason carter's pa-pa, his grandfather. >> he was the same person no matter who he was with or where he was. >> reporter: this pick a picture of air mission 39, bringing the casket home from washington back to georgia, a final homecoming here in plains, a chance for family, friends and neighbors to say goodbye. a second funeral at maranatha

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actor, seeing his home burned to the ground was literally life imitating art. cbs' tony dokoupil has the story. >> reporter: along a fire-scarred stretch of malibu, we met up with milo ventimiglia, 47-year-old father to be. >> oh, no. >> reporter: and today one of the first residents here to get a look at the damage. >> wow, man. toast. >> reporter: home after home destroyed, and milo's house wasn't one of the lucky ones. i know you were aware the house was gone. what's it like to then stand here? >> heavy, you know. you start thinking about, man, it's so quick. you start thinking about all the memories in different parts of the house and what not, and then you see your neighbors' houses, and everything kind of around. and your heart just breaks. >> reporter: now if you feel like you've seen milo before, you probably have. he's an actor, best known for his roles as jesse on "gilmore

girls" and jack pearson on "this is us." >> i'm an ordinary man. >> reporter: but in other ways and especially today, he is also just another worried homeowner. >> that's the kitchen. these were stools. >> reporter: one after he and his wife evacuated on tuesday, watched on security cameras as the flames took over. >> i think there is a kind of shock moment where you are going oh, this is real and this is happening. and at a turn point, we just turned it off. what good is it to continue watching, you know. we kind of accepted the loss. >> reporter: he and his wife, who is due to give birth any day now grabbed everything they could think of. but of course not everything. had you already bought a crib? >> yeah, the whole thing set up. all that was in there, ready to go. >> reporter: the physical loss here was total, much as it was for his character jack, whose own home burned down in "this is us." >> it's not lost on me life

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eat. well, new research shows different foods are good for different people. lee cowan reports on the lengths scientists are now going to tailor your meals. >> reporter: it's been said the best meals come from the heart, not from a recipe book. but not here. in this usda kitchen, there is no pinch of this, dash of, that no dollops or smidgens of anything. here nutritionists in white coats painstakingly measure every single ingredient, down to the tenth of a gram. so what's for lunch? >> pita. >> reporter: sharon stover is expected to eat every crumb of that pizza. the staffing gave her a special tool to do just that. >> you have to scrape it all out and you lick it. >> reporter: so you literally do everything except lick the plate? >> yes, absolutely, absolutely. >> reporter: and the tiny morsels she does miss -- >> thank you, ladies. >> reporter: well, they go back to the kitchen where they're scrutinized like evidence in some dietary crime. >> at 78, not many people get to

do studies that are going to affect a great amount of people. and i thought this was a great opportunity to do that. >> reporter: sharon, or participant number 3180, as she is known, is one of some 10,000 volunteers enrolled in a $170 million nutrition study run by the national institutes of health. >> when i tell people about the study, the reaction usually is oh, that's so cool. can i do it? >> reporter: it's called the nutrition for precision health study. coordinator holly castro explains what resize precisely means. >> precise nutrition means tailors the nutrition to the individual. there is no one best way to eat. ♪ >> reporter: the government has long offered guidelines to help us eat bert. in the '40s we had the basic salad. in the '50s, the basic food. we've had the food wheel, the food pyramid, and currently my plate. >> know what you eat. know what it does for you. food's out of sight. >> reporter: now they're all

well-intentioned, expect they're all based on averages, what works best for most people most of the time. >> we know from virtually every nutrition study we have individual variability. that means we're going have some people that are going to respond and some people that aren't. there is no one size fits all. >> reporter: the study's participants like sharon are all being drawn from another nih program called all of us, a massive undertaking to create a database of at least a million people who are volunteering everything from their electronic health records to their dna. it was from that all of us research, for example, that sharon discovered she has a gene that makes some foods taste bitter, which could explain why she ate more of one kind of food than another. >> a and the target is based on this number. >> reporter: the professor overseeing the study here at tufts university says the goal of precision nutrition is to drill down even deeper into those individual differences. >> we're moving away from just

saying everybody go do this to being able to say okay, you have x, y and z characteristics, then you're more likely to respond to a diet. and someone else that has abc characteristics, will be responding to the diet differently. >> reporter: that's a big commitment for you isn't it? >> yeah, it is. but it means a lot to me. >> reporter: sharon is just one of 150 people who are being paid to live at a handful of test sites all around the country for six weeks, two weeks at a time. it's so precise, she can't even go for a walk without a dietary chaperon. >> well, you could stop and buy candy or you could stop and have food. good forbid, you can't do that. >> okay, are you ready? >> yep, i'm ready. >> reporter: while she is here, everything from her resting metabolic weight, her body fat percentage. >> all righty. your head will come back towards me. >> reporter: her bone mineral content, even the microbes in her gut are being analyzed. ingested by this machine. it's essentially a smart toilet

paper reading device. >> we really thank that's what's going on in your poop is going to tell us a lot of information about your health and how you respond to food. >> reporter: sharon says she really doesn't mind, except for the odd sound it makes. >> if you're doing it in the middle of the night, it's going boom, boom, boom, and brrrrr! you know. >> reporter: while sharon is a live-in participant, thousands of others are participating from their homes, wear electronic wearables, track all kinds of health data, including these special glasses that record everything they eat. but they're only activated when someone like me starts chewing. i won't hear anything or see? >> you will not hear anything, but it knows that now that you put food in your mouth, that is what it needs to be capturing. >> reporter: artificial intelligence can then be used to determine not only which foods i'm eating, but how many calories i actually consumed. >> it knows these are cornflakes. >> yeah. >> it knows what kind of milk, how much milk.

>> exactly. >> reporter: the study is expected to be wrapped up by 2027. and because of it, we may indeed know not only to eat more fruits and vegetables, but what combination of foods is really best for us. the question, though, that even holly nicastro can't answer, will people listen. will in the end it help people eat better? >> you can lead a horse to water, you can't make them drink. one hypothesis i have is if the guidance is tailored to the individual, it's going to make that individual more likely to follow it, because this is for me. this was designed for me. >> lee cowan on food patrol. stay with us. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

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