it's friday, january 10th, 2025. this is "cbs news mornings." a living hellscape. the l.a. wildfires, an unprecedented disaster, with one

local official comparing the devastation to the aftermath of an atomic bomb while evacuees return to ruins. city leaders face tough questions. and a historic day in court. donald trump set to become the first former or future president to be sentenced for a crime. good morning. i'm michael george. well, as wildfires around los angeles rage for a fourth day, some evacuees are returning home to find nothing but smoldering ash, while others are mourning lost loved ones. the death toll has risen to ten. among the victims a 67 -year-old amputee and his son. a 66-year-old man and 82-year-old man. and a new fast-moving fire erupted yesterday. the kenneth fire in the san fernando valley exploded in size spreading into neighboring ventura county. l.a. county officials say more than 10,000 homes, businesses,

and other structures have been damaged or destroyed in the two biggest fires. just take a look at these before and after satellite images. this is what pacific palisades looked like before the fire. and this is what it looks like now. also at least 20 arrests have been made for looting. the l.a. county sheriff announced a curfew, and the national guard was called in to protect properties. cbs' danya bacchus joins us from the front lines of the palisades fire. firefighters finally got some relief from the winds yesterday. how is today looking? >> reporter: that's right. today is looking like it could be also a very serious situation. that's because wind is still an issue. we are under wind warnings, where gusts could reach up to 60 miles per hour. this as that intense fire-fight continues and new fires are starting. in southern california the death toll is rising, and the flames are still spreading. thursday the kenneth fire erupted in woodland hills. >> this new fire shows that we are absolutely not out of this extreme weather event.

>> reporter: los angeles and surrounding areas have been on fire since monday, starting in the pacific palisades community. these images show the extent of the devastation. >> looks like a bomb, an atomic bomb dropped in these areas. >> reporter: to show how these fires have wiped out entire communities, this was a ralph's grocery store that is now just mangled metal. and other businesses like doctors offices, clothing shops, and restaurants all look like this. >> some things in life are worth fighting for. >> reporter: pacific palisades resident john carr defied evacuation orders and stayed behind to protect his and his neighbors' homes from the fire using a water hose. >> the house was built by my mother and father in 1960. i think i owed it to them to try my best to save it. >> reporter: in altadena there's heartbreak. >> the whole community is gone. >> reporter: kimiko nickerson says her father, 82-year-old rodney kent nickerson, also didn't evacuate. >> and he said he'll be fine. i'll be here when you come back.

>> reporter: his remains were found in the rubble of their family home. local officials warn the number of dead is likely to rise as crews move in to search for more victims of these tragic fires. and the impact of these fires is affecting sports. the l.a. rams' wild card game against the minnesota vikings has been moved to arizona. the l.a. lakers and l.a. kings have also postponed games. michael? >> all right. danya bacchus in pacific palisades. thanks, and stay safe out there. some residents are furious that more could have been done to prevent this disaster. and l.a.'s mayor is facing questions over the timing of her trip to africa which he cut short to return to a city that's already burning and also about cutbacks the city made to its fire department. cbs' jonathan vigliotti has more. >> 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 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 firefighter safety. >> i don't know if they are trying to get reinforcements, but they didn't stop. >> reporter: what we saw repeatedly. >> this home is going to go up in flames. >> 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 fire 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 didn'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, 1,400 additional firefighters were deployed. >> we have a potential for structure threatened in the next 20 minutes. >> reporter: as roads became gridlocked 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 those residents were told to shelter in place. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news,

los angeles. a brutal winter storm is bringing freezing rain, heavy snow, and treacherous conditions to the south and central u.s. winter storm warnings stretch all the way from texas to north and south carolina. the storm dumped a mix of sleet and snow in north texas and oklahoma yesterday. classes were canceled for more than a million students, and thousands of flights were also canceled or delayed in the u.s. as much as eight inches of snow could fall across the south through tomorrow. history in a new york city courtroom today as a past and future president is about to be sentenced for felony crimes just days before he returns to office. donald trump will appear virtually from mar-a-lago to face a judge who will hand down his punishment in the so-called hush-money case. this after the supreme court denied his last-ditch effort for a delay. cbs' jarred hill joins us with the details. this is a first in american history. >> yeah, that's right. the first time that a past or

future president would be convicted and then face sentencing for crimes here. yesterday you had two conservative justices siding with the liberals saying that president-elect donald trump's sentencing can go forward. remember, last may a jury convicted trump on 34 felony counts you of falsifying business records in an effort to keep stormy daniels quiet about an alleged affair in the run-up to the election. the judge said he won't give trump prison time or probation, called unconditional discharge. legal analysts have noted that trump was convicted on nonviolent felonies, he's also a first-time offender. but the sentencing will formalize trump's status as a felon less than two weeks before his second inauguration. trump's lawyers argued that sentencing would get in the way of the presidential transition, but the justices said that burden is, quote, relatively insubstantial, and the appeals process should work just fine. listen to what president-elect donald trump said yesterday

about this -- >> i read it, and i thought it was a fair decision actually. so i'll do my little thing tomorrow. they can have fun with their political opponent. >> and trump in a statement later said that he does plan on appealing this case. >> and i want to ask about this, trump is also facing a setback in his attempt to stop the special counsel from releasing a report on the -- his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. what's the latest there? >> right. this is another legal loss for the president-elect. a federal appeals court out of atlanta rejected the effort paving the way for the special counsel, jack smith, to release a portion of his final report about trump alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. this is a two-part report. the other talks about smith's investigation into trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents. both of those cases against donald trump have been dismissed since he's going to be president. but there are two other men attached to the classified documents investigation, the justice department says the

attorney general will not release the second volume while proceedings against those co-defendants are ongoing, however long that lasts. remember, trump is coming into office in less than two weeks. >> that's right. jarred hill, thanks. coming up, a nation says farewell to 39th president jimmy carter. we'll take you to the tributes. and later, tiktok heads to the supreme court just days before a ban is set to take effect in the u.s. for people who feel limited by the unpredictability of generalized myasthenia gravis, season to season, ultomiris is continuous symptom control, with improvement in activities of daily living and reduced muscle weakness. and ultomiris is the only long-acting gmg treatment with the freedom of just 6 to 7 infusions per year, for a predictable routine i can count on. ultomiris may lower your immune system's ability to fight infections, increasing your chance of serious meningococcal and other infections which may become life-threatening or fatal.

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funeral had the majesty of washington's national cathedral and the piety of a man of strong faith. like carter the 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 five 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

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could leave homeowners high and dry when they need it most. here's shanelle kaul. >> reporter: a mixed close to the markets thursday as investors await the december jobs report set to be released today. the dow gained 106 points. the nasdaq lost 10, and the s&p 500 gained 9 points. california homeowners who lost everything in the wildfires are now also dealing with an insurance nightmare. the state's insurance department says state farm dropped about 1,600 policies in pacific palisades last july. it's part of a recent trend in private insurance of not covering high-risk areas prone to climate disasters. state farm says the priority is, quote, the safety of our customers, agents, and employees, and assisting our customers in the midst of this tragedy. the palisades fire could become the costliest wildfire in history because the homes destroyed rank among the nation's most expensive.

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