knew i had a spa. so i carried as many buckets as i could as long as i could. >> we bring you stories of neighbors helping neighbors amid the slow response. and right here in the bay area the bird flu has now spread to san francisco with a child showing symptoms. it's so sad when you are in a vulnerable state to be preyed upon. >> burglarized not once, but eight times, thieves repeatedly targeted an oakland hills home gutted by a fire. we will hear from the homeowner. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. it's been four grueling days. firefighters in southern california now doing what they can and they are seeing some signs of progress as they continue to battle wildfires that have already erased entire neighborhoods off the map. the fires burning across the region have burned in an area bigger than the size of san francisco.

the good news, a red flag warning just expired, but they only have a small window before the santa ana winds pick back up again next week. tonight firefighters continue to attack the flames from the air as they edge closer to the san fernando valley, but for the first time since the fire started there are containment numbers to report. the palisades fire is now 8% contained while the eaton fire is 3% contained. in all, more than 12,000 homes and other structures have been leveled. 11 people are confirmed dead, but authorities say we could learn of more deaths in the coming days. help is certainly pouring in. 400 members of the national guard rolling into the fire zones just today. they are there to manage road closures and provide security in the evacuation areas. there is also a curfew underway tonight right now, but earlier in the day many homeowners in altadena were able to return to see what

remains of their homes. others were there to help. let's go now to katie nielsen live in altadena with more on what she witnessed and certainly some random acts of kindness, what a nice thing to see. >> reporter: one of the things you can always count on during tough times like these are helpers, people who look around and see this level of destruction and just feel for their neighbors, feel for their fellow humans that are going through such an incredibly difficult time and that's what we found today, people who just want to help. >> i emptied that thing out. >> reporter: doug rogers stayed behind wednesday morning during the worst of the firestorm in altadena desperate to save his house. >> i saw embers flying, little fires starting. we had no water pressure. i knew we had a spa. so i carried as many buckets as i could as long as i could, just kept fighting. >> reporter: he doesn't have

any firefighting experience. he's a nurse and now all the homes on his block and across the street are gone except the four he protected with his home depot buckets. >> there's no way to get any more water out of it. i took everything out i could. >> reporter: now mixed emotions as the reality of what happened sinks in. >> just my -- just can't express how much i feel for these other people. >> reporter: a few blocks over david and his two kids are going around turning off water and gas lines, baffled by the slow response. >> we saw a person who worked for the gas company. he walked up to me and said, hey, where's house number blah blah blah? i'm like why? he's like i need to turn off the gas. i'm like dude, look around, flare, flare, flare, flare. the house you're talking about is way over here. >> reporter: small acts of kindness, people helping neighbors, oftentimes they didn't even know.

>> you definitely see a lot of strength, resilience that comes out of the bad, comes a lot of good. >> reporter: paul lowenthal from the santa rosa fire department knows this firsthand. not only was he on the ground in 2017 during the santa rosa fires, but he also lost his own home and now he's here in altadena, yet another personal connection. >> this is a community that i grew up in. i am glad and almost honored to be able to help this community right now. >> reporter: helping people, that is exactly why the california national guard is here, just like they were deployed to santa rosa in 2017 to help with security there, because if you can imagine, all the work doug and others did to save these homes only for the homeowners to come back and find that they had been broken into during this evacuation time. i mean absolutely unimaginable. so that is why there is a curfew in effect for

tonight, 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. the only people allowed inside the evacuation zone are emergency personnel and credentialed members of the media and these overnight curfews are going to go on indefinitely. the sheriff's department has already arrested 20 people for looting between the palisades fire and here at the eaton fire. >> that part of it all is unreal. thank you for sharing those stories and the glimmer of hope in what people are doing. thank you so much. there's another story and another emotional moment in the midst of the devastation. a man who made it out safely returned to the rubble of his home just to find his late wife's ashes. >> her ashes would be right here. this is the urn. that's her ashes. >> yeah. the palisades fire zone, another glimpse of the losses, many of the cars that drivers had to abandon during the evacuation still sit on

sunset boulevard and pacific palisades. nearly half of them are charred. late today governor newsom announced wildfire survivors can now apply for federal aid. people and businesses who have suffered losses can go to disasterassistance.gov to apply. the state set up a new website to support survivors with resources. that's ca.gov/lafires. let's get to first alert chief meteorologist paul heggen with the all important wind conditions and fire conditions. >> yeah. we've got some live pictures in the monitor of one of the fires burning in southern california right now. even though the winds have died down, the vegetation is so dry, even the lighter wind is still offshore. that's a bad enough thing and the winds are going to intensify heading through tonight and into tomorrow especially in southern california. let's look at the fire weather risk and today the worst of it was actually in the hills above san diego as opposed to closer to los angeles. it was still an elevated wildfire threat closer

to los angeles, but things are going to spread out once again as we head through tomorrow. this is the wildfire threat for tomorrow. you see the orange spreading out. that is critical fire weather conditions that will make their way back into the higher terrain above los angeles. downslope winds will strengthen throughout the day. let's look at the monitor and track those winds hour by hour as we head through tonight and tomorrow. for the moment, the winds are pretty light. that's good news for the fire crews on the ground and the air crews, but by sunrise already the winds in the higher terrain start to pick up. that will take most of the day to make its way downslope, but it will. we'll have some 40 plus-mile-an-hour gusts on the map before the sun goes down with the strongest winds occurring tomorrow night into early sunday morning, some gusts in the 50, 60, close to 70-mile-an-hour range, a huge problem for fire crews as any new fire could quickly spread out and the existing fires could flare up to a greater extent and cause even more problems. what they need is rain. we don't have any in the

forecast. the rain chances for los angeles over the next seven days are basically equivalent to the rain chances aren't the bay area. there are not any. gusty winds that kick in tomorrow will be noticeable around the bay area, just not nearly to the extent they will be in southern california. our strongest gusts for most of the densely populated parts of the bay area will be in the 20 to 30-mile-an-hour range, but some higher gusts on the peaks. so we do have a wind advisory there. we'll talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. the flames caused major damage to infrastructure. pasadena water is calling the tap water in the evacuation zone unsafe. the water district will have to flush its system multiple times. even after that it may take days or weeks before it is safe for consumption. >> the pipes melt. they become open sources. gases from the fire burning can be pulled into the pipes. those gases contain lots of toxic chemicals of which none of us want to breathe. they can also contaminate the insides of those pipes. >> we also want to let you all

know cbs is partnering with the red cross to raise money for those impacted by the southern california wildfires. you can go to redcross.org/cbs to donate. call 10800 red cross. you can also text red cross to 90999 to make a $10 donation. coming up, san francisco reports its first bird flu case in a child, what health officials are now saying. and their home was burned by a fire in the oakland hills. whatever survived inside was then stolen by thieves. >> this is one of the ways in which the thieves came in and they broke the window and literally crawled in and took a whole refrigerator. >> up next, why police say there isn't much that they can do.

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erupted in the oakland hills in october, firefighters were able to prevent a larger firestorm, but a couple homes did suffer significant damage and now one of those homes has become a target for thieves, the just once, but eight times. da lin spoke to the homeowner. >> reporter: the homeowners tell me losing their home was tough, but say the repeated burglaries have been demoralizing. 4101 maynard avenue, home of 30 years for delane sims and her husband. it was where they raised their children and hosted holiday dinners until the october 18 keller fire severely damaged it. >> it's really horrible. it's like they're kind of snatching your heart out all over again. >> reporter: delane says different people broke into the yellow-tagged house at least eight times to steal anything that was salvageable in november and december. she says they first broke the lockbox with keys inside meant for the

contractors to gain entry. after that burglary contractors changed the locks. is that this is one of the ways the thieves came in, broke a window, crawled in, took a whole refrigerator, took it down the sleep and put it in a vehicle. >> reporter: one of her sons slept in a car in the driveway to prevent burglaries. the burglars threatened came when her son confronted the man. >> my son backed his car out of the area, shortly thereafter saw the police, flagged them down and they were able to come look for the people, but by then they were long gone. >> reporter: nothing left in the home, most items not damaged by the fire stolen by thieves. >> this is just one of the times they came in and went into our garage. so everything has been taken out of our garage. there's just nothing left here.

>> reporter: the oakland police officers association president says officers feel extremely bad about the burglaries. they wish they could do more, but it's been challenging due to the staffing shortage. >> we didn't come till like eight hours later. another call we didn't come till like three hours later. so i understand the frustration of our community member. it's very difficult for us to provide the need of our community with the small number of officers that we have. >> reporter: delane says she supports the first responders as they experience budget cuts and she has not lost faith on humanity. she's speaking up so other fire survivors can learn from her experience. >> i'm convinced that there are more good people in the world just because of how people showed up for us after the fire and how they're showing up for those in southern california. >> reporter: police say no one has been arrested in these burglaries of one investigator tells me because the oakland police department is so severely understaffed, unfortunately, they don't have anyone to investigate these so-called low priority cases.

>> so delane has advice for anyone whose home is damaged in a fire. hire contractors to board up the house immediately to at least slow down burglars. she says it's not something survivors think about after a traumatic incident. the san francisco fire department has a new fire chief. mayor daniel lurie appointed battalion chief dean crispen as the 27th chief in the department's history. he brings 34 years of service with sf fire. crispen has captained stations at chinatown, north beach, and soma. san francisco health officials confirmed the first human case of bird flu in a child. their symptoms included fever and pink eye, but they have since recovered. it is unclear how that child was infected. while the risk to the general public is low, health officials are urging people to avoid sick or dead birds and raw dairy products. we are approaching the weekend. i guess you call friday the start of the weekend for some, right? we're still

here. >> you get a little early jump on the weekend compared to those of us who do the 11:00 news. >> i'll still watch you tonight. >> appreciate that. >> how is it looking here? >> looking pretty good here, still going to be challenging for southern california. i'm going to turn on the satellite on my map. there's a major winter storm system making its way through the eastern half of the country, so active weather all over the place. in southern california it's the fires. the satellite earlier today doesn't show as much smoke pouring off those fires, but it's still there and we're heading into a challenging weekend for those folks. that satellite perspective shows pretty much cloud-free conditions for much of california and the west coast. the current view, if it wasn't nighttime, would show fog pouring through the golden gate. it would not show you rain clouds close to us anytime soon. let's go to the monitor and talk about how things are and aren't going to change through the next few days. the thing that's not going to change, rain chances running

near zero through the seven-day forecast. there is some data that in the ten to 14-day range tries to hint that maybe there's a trend towards a slightly more unsettled weather pattern. there's a lot of maybes and if's and and's and a lot of uncertainty in that time frame. it's going to be dry a while. fortunately, we have added up a decent amount of rain to this point, but the longer this dry weather lasts, the more our fire danger goes up as well. san jose made it up to the 70s earlier, now still in the upper 50s while most of our temperatures have retreated to the low to mid-50s. fog won't be a factor a lot longer. it's because the winds are going to pick up, specifically offshore winds accelerating through this evening and really overnight. they'll be strongest in the higher elevations, but just the presence of that offshore flow will push the marine layer back farther out over the ocean. the winds will be strong enough we do have a wind advisory in effect for the higher

elevations of the bay area, but for the valleys where most of the communities of the bay area are, not included in that wind advisory because the winds are not going to be as strong. let's look at peak gusts we expect over the course of this wind advisory from midnight tonight through 10:00 a.m. sunday. for the most part, we're talking about 25 to 35-mile-an-hour gusts with a few exceptions, close to 45-mile-an-hour gusts around half moon bay, maybe a 40-mile-an-hour gust for livermore and antioch and for solano county close to a 50-mile-an-hour gust around fairfield, a far cry from what they're dealing with in southern california, but just something to be aware of. the winds should be dying down sunday. the presence of that wind tonight, the accelerating wind is not only getting rid of the fog, but keeping temperatures from falling too far. we'll level off in the 40s pretty much across the entire bay area. temperatures tomorrow, a very well stirred air mass, not a lot of

variation in temperatures, 67 the warm spot in san jose, 62, one of the cool spots in pacifica, also bodega bay 62, all these numbers running 5 to 8 degrees above average for mid-january. temperatures do change a little bit in the seven-day forecast. there is a gradual return to near normal, but it basically takes the entire seven-day forecast to get back to near average temperatures a week from today. a little more cloud cover a week from today, but otherwise lots of sunshine. >> thanks so much. coming up, a bay area food bank answer be the call for help, the shipment now

amid the destruction of these l.a. wildfires, donations are pouring in from those looking to help the community. so this is one of the pop-up donation sites at the rose bowl stadium in pasadena where people have brought in clothes, food, water and other essentials for those impacted by the fires. neighbors say they're giving whatever they can to help out. >> i was watching the news this morning and you guys -- someone said they needed bags. we had a box of bags. we had some extra clothes. so that's the least we could do. >> help is also coming from the bay area. the food bank of contra costa and solano packed up and shipped more than 2,000 boxes of ready to eat meals to

its counterpart in l.a. it's also sending more than 10,000 cans of electrolyte-infused water. the food bank got the call wednesday night and had a truck packed ready to go early the next morning. up next, how the l.a. fires are impacting the sports world, including an upcoming nfl playoff game. hey, i'm jonny moseley with the latest toyota tahoe report. before hopping in your toyota, let's run through the conditions you'll see up in the mountains. >> the mountains have received zero additional snow over the past 24 hours and zero additional snow over the past several days. that's not something that will change anytime soon, doesn't look like the next chance of new snowfall courtesy of mother nature will happen for about the next week or so. temperatures will be favorable the resorts can make their own snow and add up to what's already a pretty good base on the ground, temperatures overnight teens and 20s. they'll be able to fire up the snow guns. temperatures during the day topping out in the 30s at lake level, higher

elevations only in the 20s and it's going to be windy enough climbing up in elevation that the wind chill will be stuck in the teens. make sure you are layered up. travel weather looks just fine, lots of sunshine over the weekend. we'll be here keeping you updated in the toyota tahoe report. if you'

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as night sets in, so does the firefight. another live look from southern california, orange flames lighting up the sky. red flag warnings are over for now which should help firefighters tonight. we will continue to follow this. so this weekend's l.a. rams playoff game against the minnesota vikings has been moved to glendale, arizona, because of the fires in l.a. county. the nfl will also donate $5 million to help relief efforts in los angeles and that is thanks in part to contributions from the l.a. chargers, l.a. rams, minnesota vikings, and houston texans. thanks so much for

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