going to be coming home to. >> next thing you know, i'm homeless and a refugee. >> you think of all the memories and hang out with friends as a kid. it's absolutely devastating. i'm heartbroken. this is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. >> i'm anne makovec. it is really tough to even try to wrap your head around the sheer scope of the devastation in los angeles right now. thousands upon thousands of homes that have burned to the ground, firefighters just starting to make some progress against these deadly wildfires, trying to take advantage of the break in the winds today, but dangerous fire conditions are expected yet again next week. so the window of time is very short. there are at least five active wildfires burning right now across the los angeles area. the biggest concern for fire crews, the pal stays fire and the eaton fire. here's what we know so far. there have

been 11 confirmed deaths, but that number is expected to rise as emergency workers go through more of the rubble. more than 12,000 homes destroyed and more than 30,000 acres have burned. there are 7,500 state personnel battling the fires. the palisades fire has exploded to more than 20,000 acres. right now it is 8% contained. this video shows it is growing to the unincorporated community of topanga in western los angeles county. here's a closer look at the damage in the palisades area from above. you can see rows upon rows of destruction while some homes in the wreckage remained relatively untouched. look at the map here of the palisades fire. you can see that inferno reaching up to the ocean stretching from malibu all the way down the coast. further inland we're

also seeing the destruction from the eaton fire. that fire has burned more than 13,000 acres, but firefighters say they have made significant progress today. it is now 3% contained. well, that eaton fire broke out tuesday night in altadena and spread to pasadena. it's destroyed more than 7,000 structures so far. some people are returning to their property to find nothing left. >> reporter: what are you looking for? >> anything. i mean anything, you know, really for my kids because she had a lot of memories. i'm 63 years old, but she's growing up, had a lot of pictures and i can't get that back for her. >> meantime evacuations have been lifted for the kenneth fire. that broke out near homes in the west hills yesterday. here's a look at the aftermath of that, police questioning someone now who witnesses say started that fire intentionally. this new fire

broke out in grenada hills this morning and thankfully, it did not pose much threat to homes. forward progress has been stopped and evacuation orders there have been lifted. look at the satellite images now before and after the fires and you can see the destruction of the homes there, entire neighborhoods gone. today the state issued a one-year moratorium on insurance companies canceling or nonrenewing residential insurance policies for people affected by the fire because insurance is going to be another disaster. we're all going to be dealing with it here in california in the aftermath. reporter tom hanson visited an evacuation center that's housing 1,200 people displaced by the eaton fire and he met a jazz musician who lost not just his home, but his entire body of work. >> one night you're on top of the world, two soldout shows and next thing you know, i'm homeless and a refugee. >> oh, my god, it's all gone.

>> reporter: gail fielder never imagined leaving the magical place he called home. >> when i moved there 16 years ago, my wife said well, can you see yourself here in five years? it was like, you know, you could bury me in that backyard. >> reporter: the professional musician and owner of an independent jazz label lost nearly everything in the fire, including his instruments. >> there was so much love in this house. just to see it like this. >> reporter: fielder said altadena was more than a home. it was a connection to a strong african american history. many black families have lived in altadena for generations and fielder says the community celebrated artists. now he fears it all could be lost forever. >> there's nothing. everything is just burnt. what wasn't burnt was in the process of being burnt. just to think it's never going to be like that again. >> reporter: understandably, fielder is devastated. he says that having to start over in

his 60s is going to be incredibly difficult, so difficult that he and his wife are even considering leaving the state altogether and as we've driven through these communities, we have seen scene after scene just like this one, mean nothing doubt, there are more gut wrenching stories coming out of altadena. cbs is partnering with the red cross to try to raise money for people impacted by the southern california wildfires. you can go to redcross.org/cbs to donate or call 1-800-red cross. you could also text red cross to 90999 to make an automatic $10 donation. to first alert weather now switching gears, everything seems so much less dramatic up here when we look at it, but you've been keeping an eye on the conditions in southern california. >> doesn't look nearly as bad today as it did. if you were just looking at this from the

satellite, this is the latest image. we're trending towards night now. it might be kind of difficult to pick it out there. let's go back a few hours, high resolution satellite over southern california today. there is still a plume of smoke. that one is coming off the palisades. so out of all the fires in southern california right now, it's the palisades fire that is still emanating and putting up a plume of smoke. we can see that when we look at it this way. the eaton fire would be here and the other smaller fires are up that way. so on the one hand, you don't want to see any smoke. it was pretty quiet the first half of the day and it kind of picked up about the last two hours, but here's the comparison. going to switch from looking at today and instead we'll look at what this looked like yesterday and this wasn't even during the peak of this. it was worse two days before that. so there is improvement at least in terms of how the fire's behaving today and it makes perfect sense if you look at what the wind's doing. this is that

point in time we've been pointing towards the last day and a half saying wait till we get to friday afternoon. things will calm downand sure enough, there's a lot less color on this map, but having said it's better now, the wind will pick up again, never going back to the intensity it was on tuesday, but going back strong enough it's going to be problematic. that gets us into sunday, 70-mile-an-hour gusts over the peaks and more like 20 to 30-mile-an-hour winds over a lot of the footprints of those fires. our winds will also pick up here at home. it's a part of our forecast. we'll pick up that story when we get back together in the local forecast in a few minutes. anne, back to you. >> thank you, darren. many of you, myself included, woke up to a little earthquake today followed by an aftershock. the first quake was a magnitude 3.6, hit just after 7:00 this morning and the epicenter was just offshore near the san francisco zoo according to the usgs. it was

reportedly felt as far north as santa rosa and as far south as santa cruz. the 2.9 aftershock happened at about 10:48. it's believed that they happened along the san andrea faults. stay cool, san andreas. we don't need that right now. san francisco may have had its first case of bird flu in a person. health officials say a child had fever and pink eye but has since recovered. the cdc is doing tests to confirm it was, in fact, bird flu. new san francisco mayor daniel lurie has named a new fire chief. battalion chief dean crispen has served sf fire for 34 years and was part of the team that responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in new york city. >> it is the honor of my life to receive this appointment. i pledge to you that i shall work tirelessly to protect our citizens and visitors. >> crispen will serve as the 27th fire chief. he replaces

jeanine nicholson who stepped down due to medical issues. you will soon see these new fare gates at b.a.r.t.'s embarcadero station. workers started installing them today. those gates are designed to prevent fare evasion. all stations are expected to have them in place by the end of this year. still ahead, back to southern california, we are revisiting coffey park about how they rebuilt after a fire tore through their community. ♪

national national guard troops have been deployed to l.a. to help keep the peace. at least 20 arrests have been made since these fires started earlier this week. the fire evacuation zones are under a 6:00 p.m. to

6:00 a.m. curfew. also in southern california amidst all the devastation we have seen the community coming together. here's some video of a massive donation site at the rose bowl that began as a couple of hotdog carts. a tiktok personality said he went down to the rose bowl to give out food to wildfire victims. millions tuned into his live stream and donations began flooding in. neighbors say they're giving whatever they can to try to help out. >> i was watching the news this morning and someone said they needed bags. so we had a box of bags. we had some extra clothes. so that's the least we could do. >> the donation site at the rose bowl has now become a place where people can pick up clothes, toiletries, baby items, just about anything to help them survive over the next few days. airbnb is also offering free temporary housing for people displaced by the wildfires. the company is partnering with 211 to help people in need. a rescue team

was able to save two ponies trapped at their shelter after it caught fire. the rescue team says they had to navigate through rock slides, downed trees, and burning homes to reach these cute ponies and after 30 minutes of searching they were rescued and safely recovered, but their shelter was completely destroyed. the devastation that we're seeing from that region again all too familiar for us here in northern california. we have seen entire neighborhoods burnt to the ground, leaving nothing behind but some bricks, twisted metal, and smoldering ash. that is similar to what we saw after the camp fire, the tubbs fire, and the coffey fire. our kelsi thorud spoke with local fire survivors. >> some people it took five years to get their house rebuilt. >> reporter: pamela said she can't help but feel on high alert seeing the images coming out of southern california. >> i 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 and she looks out the window and it's a tornado. that's what it looked like when i looked out my window. >> reporter: pamela and her family escaped the flames in the nick of time, but their house along with the entire coffey park neighborhood, was destroyed. >> it looks like a war zone or like the moonscape. i mean it's just 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 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 said the video coming out of that area the last days has been devastating. >> places i used to hang out and played, those are all gone. >> reporter: steve is 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 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. >> there really is something comforting hearing from people who have been through it like life goes on because it just feels at this point just so very heavy. around here the weather is really calm, really chill, really peaceful. >> we'll bring the focus back to us. there are two things happening now in the weather. one are these offshore winds. the other thing is we're not getting any rain and the two are related. let me show you how that works. we'll use the virtual map to show you where the rain is. this is the last three hours of radar. there's a weak little system coming in

through our north up to the pacific northwest. let's get a slightly wider view because i'm going to switch from live radar and put on futurecast so you can watch where that's going. here comes the system. watch what it does, slides down in the interior. so this is another version of what we call inside sliders. in other words, we'll watch that again. the systems are coming into our north, riding up and over us and then sliding down the inside of the continent. watch it one more time. here it goes. that's important to watch the direction because if we instead of looking at where the rain is, let's keep our vantage point a little more on the west. if we keep the perspective and look at the wind within that and watch what happens. here comes the system. now watch what shows up seemingly out of nowhere down here as these systems come in and slide by inside the continent. the wind picks up on their exit and that's how you get offshore winds. we're locked in a pattern now where

the storms are all going up and over and then sliding down the interior. we're not getting any rain and each time one of those does that we feel the wind. we've talked a lot about what that means for southern california, kind of showed you the forecast for that in the last visit, so let's come back home because we have a wind advisory primarily for the offshore winds that will get things going in the mountains. this is not a major concern for the majority of us who live at lower elevations, but if we look at the bay and color in the region where the national weather service issued a wind advisory, this is going through friday and saturday. there's going to be two pulses of wind that will come through. in general, both of them are going to bring us gusts to the peaks. so this will be for friday and again on saturday. we'll have 50-mile-an-hour gusts up on mount st. helena. we'll have 25 to 30-mile an hour gusts on mount diablo. it will probably

get a bit gusty through the altamont pass. it may get a bit windy in the east bay hills. let's bracket the two time frames here. here's the visual. here's the wind that gets us into tomorrow, offshore wind. now i'm taking us to monday, two pulses. the first pulse of offshore wind comes through saturday. you see the time staff down there. that's saturday in the evening, so one uptick in offshore winds over the mountains and then there's another one. this one is focused on monday morning. so it switched. i'm going to hit that again to bring in the monday. maybe we've got to get rid of saturday completely. we'll let those dissolve and now bring in the monday wind and you can see how those look. it's a little more directly offshore. the monday morning stuff -- and there's our timestamp -- may be a little stronger, but still fall within

the range of these numbers. so what does this mean for the rest of us down here at lower elevations? maybe a 20-mile-an-hour breeze the next two days, not constant, but picking up tomorrow night and again monday and no other change. we're not going to get rain in this scenario. we can confirm that with one look at the seven-day forecast. i'll show you what that has to say about this. a lot of daytime highs in the low and mid-60s and temperatures that don't change all that much at all, bit windy in the mornings. there's one final thing to look at up here. that is the forecast for accumulated rainfall from now going to january 20th. so past the seven-day all the way out to the 20th. look at that big donut hole. that's us. the storms are going over dropping rain and snow in the rockies. we shouldn't expect this to change much. we'll be back after this.

>for the final. >anne>there she goes there she goes at cape canaveral, spacex lifting off once again. the falcon 9 rocket sent 21 starlink stat lights into space. then the booster landed on a drone ship in the atlantic. what was once an idea out of science fiction could soon become a reality, a smart home completely run by artificial intelligence that could help homeowners cook, clean, and even make decisions that includes a new samsung smart fridge that suggests what

you need to buy on your next grocery trip, a microwave that knows how long to cook your food and a vacuum that picks up your socks. experts say home robots are still including. >> reporter: can we use a.i. to make it so the devices can have the decision making power for you? that takes a lot of trust, but that's the dream. >> consumers who want an integrated smart home often have to stick with one brand, but bridget carrie says that companies could integrate a common language so customers don't have to stick with just one, wild stuff. coming up next at 5:00, a big uproar over potty training, why some parents in the united kingdom will have to come to school and do it themselves if their child needs a diaper change. also adding insult to injury, we're meeting a bay area family whose home was gutted in a raging fire and it's become a magnet for bees. about 150,000 people remain

under evacuation orders because of those southern california wildfires. we'll hear from people

right now on cbs news bay area, crews struggling to contain the deadly wildfires that have leveled entire communities in southern california. we're live in the evacuation zone with stories of heartbreak and bravery in the

face of disaster. >> and he said he'll be fine. i'll be here when you guys come back. he was in his bed when i found him. and the flames have subsided in some southern california neighborhoods but not the danger, the new concerns emerging from the fire zone. it's so sad when you are in a vulnerable state to be preyed upon. >> the killer fire gutted the home of a family. and president-elect trump's legal problems come to an end today. we'll break down exactly what his sentencing means. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. we begin in southern california where there's progress but still a very long road ahead to contain a fire that has reduced thousands of homes and other structures to rubble. >> good evening. i'm ryan yamamoto. those fires burning across the region have scorched an

area bigger than the size of the city of san francisco. so firefighters really have their hands full. in all, more than 12,000 homes and other structures have been leveled. 11 people are confirmed dead, but we're likely to learn of more deaths in the coming days. a new estimate from accuweather puts the total cost of the damage between 135 to $150 billion. firefighters starting to get a better sense just how much destruction the eaton fire has caused in the altadena area. it has burned more than 20 square miles and it damaged at least 7,000 structures. fire officials confirmed at least six people have died in that fire. one woman spoke about how her cousin and his disabled son were among the victims. the two had been waiting for an ambulance to arrive. >> anthony was such a great guy, businessman, family man. i mean you can talk to anthony about just about anything and he was such a jewel. so this is