from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. now at 11:00, thousands of firefighters have been battling the southern california wildfires for nearly a week now, but even firefighters with years of experience who are struggling to copy with the scale of the destruction. >> the fires that they experienced this week were unstoppable. mother nature

owned us, owned us those two days. >> despite crews arriving from nine states, dozens of aircraft, and over 1,000 fire engines, they say it's still not enough. >> and there's not enough fire engines for this. we think we've lost 8,000 structures. so times three fire engines each, that requires 26,000 fire engines. i don't think the state of california has 26,000 fire engines. that could be at one place right now. >> here in the bay area fire departments are trying to avoid a similar fate, especially in places with very similar topography. >> good evening. i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. crews in southern california are racing against the clock and mother nature to make as much progress as they can on the deadly wildfires before more strong winds move in this week. >> the total area of the fires that have burned now more than 62 square miles, larger than san francisco at 49 square

miles. the palisades fire has sent 23,000 acres up in smoke with still only 13% containment. the eaton fire is at over 14,000 acres with 27% containment. >> the death toll is now up to 24. 16 deaths are connected to the eaton fire and the other eight to the palisades. there are still at least 16 more people missing. 150,000 are still under evacuation orders across l.a. county. authorities are expecting that all those numbers will keep rising with those santa ana winds returning. l.a. county fire chief anthony marrone explains. >> conditions that night were unbearable. it was a devil wind that came out, you know, that extreme santa ana wind condition. thousands of burning embers this size and bigger being transported by that wind and that smoke column. >> darren is here with more on

the details of what they'll be facing down there in the winds and we're kind of still feeling the impacts even up here. >> there is a connection to this. we're going to feel the same offshore wind event here tomorrow. i'm going to go into a little background how these things are put together, why they keep happening, what's going to happen in l.a. first this visit and in the next visit i'll talk to you about our wind tomorrow morning. we've already got offshore winds developing here. if you look in the central valley, that is the next area of low pressure that is about to spark this next instance of offshore winds. let me show you how this comes together and why it keeps happening this way. when we look at the satellite imagery, you'll notice nothing coming down through nevada if you look at the regular satellite because the storm track is easy to pick out going up and over, but when you look at it this way, you can see what is about to come down inside the

continent. within this is a tight area of low pressure that is going to drive the winds. there's no rain in here. you can't even really see the clouds. if we visualize this differently, watch the wind field as that moves south. you'll see the screen light up here as everything progresses done the state and right there tomorrow offshore winds develop seemingly out of nowhere, but now we know what's going on. these are these areas are low pressure going over the top of the state and diving down the interior and that's what keeps giving us these offshore winds. it's also why we aren't getting rain. they got to go over and down the wrong way. in l.a. there are two more pulses of offshore winds. the first we saw from the system tonight that will spark the offshore winds that we just looked at on the big picture, but it's the one coming after this and another one coming after the one we just watched that's going to be stronger and that's going to come in on tuesday and probably linger into early wednesday. watch the screen light up again as we get into tuesday. now you've got

much more intense winds, a lot more purple on the screen. look at the time there, tuesday morning. not only is it much stronger, but it's going to last longer. so the tuesday into wednesday morning is really the trouble spot for them. meanwhile here at home tomorrow we got to talk about our winds, especially for the east bay. tomorrow morning i want to show you why i would say that coming up in the full forecast. we don't have any fire weather concerns here, about but it's going to be a bit windy tomorrow. let's look quickly at how the palisades fire spread with the help of those strong winds as it continues creeping towards west los angeles and the san fernando valley threatening the communities of encino and brentwood and while evacuation orders for the entire area remain in effect, some people were able to go back to learn the fate of their homes, but as katie nielsen tells us from pacific palisades, that didn't last long. >> reporter: it has been almost a week since the start of the palisades fire and so many

people who evacuated on that first day still do not know the fate of their homes. that's why yesterday the l.a. county sheriff's department was actually escorting residents in one by one allowing them back to their properties, but they were so overwhelmed with the number of people that showed up they had to stop doing that today, but there were some people who still came to that road closure anyway trying to get any information they could. >> we got here at 4:00. we were number five, but then they said nobody's allowed in today. >> reporter: james has been trying to get in since yesterday. >> certain things were forgotten. the third story looked like it got burnt. however, it looks like the first floor is intact. other than water damage which we can tolerate, we can get stuff out. >> the guys are giving it everything they have and unfortunately, these are the gut punches that become like a

loss. this particular fire would be a five-alarm fire and we had five engines, not dressed a lot different than i am now trying to do what would be 100 people here trying to save this building. >> reporter: division chief mike mccastland and his team tried for almost 12 hours to keep the condo building from burning worried the embers could ignite the entire neighborhood above it, but the winds were just too much. >> it was just -- it was really shocking to see how out of control this whole thing is and our lack or inability to control any of that environment was shocking. i've been doing this for 26 years and never seen anything like it. >> reporter: back at the roadblock zelda was also trying to get inside the evacuation zone. she's an oncologist and was working in the hospital when the fire started. she wasn't able to go back home to get anything and was hoping to

get in today to see if there was anything left. >> i saw actually the house was okay until 1:30. i could see on the cameras, but then after 1:30 it went blank and around 3:00 the neighbor sent us a picture of our house on fire. >> reporter: this is the picture she got from the neighbor and today this is what it looks like, a complete loss. >> i just want to see it to know like where we're standing and right now i just have little hopes maybe there is something left, but yeah, i don't know. i just want closure, i guess. >> while more progress is being made on the eaton fire, cal fire says about 7,000 structures have already been damaged or destroyed. that includes buildings, homes, garages, and even cars with thousands more still under threat in the pasadena and altadena areas. now the political finger pointing is well underway with

president-elect donald trump today calling the people handling the fires incompetent. governor gavin newsom is firing back saying that mr. trump is knowingly spreading misinformation about the state's response to the fires, but at a press conference sunday mayor karen bass downplayed talk of a growing rift between local officials and the incoming administration. >> how troubled are you that there's a lack of communication between the city of los angeles and the incoming trump administration? >> there isn't a lack of communication between the city of los angeles and the incoming trump administration. i have spoken with representatives of the incoming administration. i'll be talking more about that in the coming days. >> in a letter l.a. county supervisor katherine barger extended an invitation of her own to the president-elect and urged the incoming administration to consider financial assistance for the communities affected. back in the bay area, the fires are causing local fire departments to take a closer

look at how prepared they are if something like all that happens here. they tell our amanda hari that we have had too many legendary blazes of our own and will have to face up to the inevitable next one. >> reporter: the berkeley fire chief says the images we're seeing out of southern california are a grim reminder of what can happen right here. he says the topography and vegetation in the oakland hills and berkeley hills is very similar to that in l.a. he wants to remind both firefighters and residents to be prepared. as multiple fires continue to burn in the los angeles area, local fire municipalities are trying to learn from the tragedy. >> if we didn't do that, i think it would be criminal. we have to learn. we're always learning. >> reporter: berkeley fire chief david sprague penned a letter to the community in the berkeley scanner to recognize what is going on, try to inspire hope, and acknowledge

that there are more mitigation efforts that can help the community protect itself from a mega fire. >> we know it can happen here. climate change has only made it more likely. >> reporter: both chief sprague and emil kastenchoa vividly remember the oakland firestorm of 1991. >> it was very apocalyptic and i feel like having experienced that, i know the graphic feeling, the tragic feeling of all that, how things can change within -- you know, in a moment's notice. >> reporter: kastenchoa said he walked outside that day and there was ash in his front yard and the sky was black. he still lives in the same home he did in 1991 and the fire risk is always on his mind, especially as he grows increasingly concerned about insurance rates going up and possibly being dropped from his coverage. >> where are we headed? why aren't we making fire risk and fire safety more of a priority? >> reporter: chief sprague is

trying to do just that and he's encouraging the community to embrace scientifically proven strategies to safeguard people and their structures. the first thing he's asking people to do is to make sure they have a plan to leave their homes in the berkeley hills in the case of extreme fire events. the streets are narrow and it will be impossible to move everyone out at the last moment. >> when we issue preemptive advisory to leave early when fire weather is known to be or forecasted, we really need people to take that seriously and consider leaving the hills so we can reduce the number of people left to evacuate. >> reporter: he's also asking people to establish a zone zero buffer around their home, creating a defensible space so firefighters can protect it and finally, invest time and energy in your home to protect against embers. >> it's a matter of when, not

if. >> reporter: both berkeley and cal fire have resources on their website to help people prepare for any fires that may pop up. and coming up, a look at how some of the people here in the bay area are stepping up to help victims in los angeles. and then why are more businesses closing down in jack london square despite the city saying crime is down? and darren will be back with a look at what we can expect to start the workweek all

oakland's jack london square is known as a hub for shopping and dining, but merchants say the historic waterfront neighborhood has seen a drop in foot traffic the last couple years, blaming it on crime despite the city saying crime is down. two popular restaurants have already shut down, forage pizza which plans to reopen in the rockridge neighborhood, and the french restaurant left bank. fewer people have led to fewer vendors coming out to the farmers market on sundays. >> people are just afraid to drive out here and leave their cars parked. >> crime is an issue that's going to be a problem, especially for a place like jack london square is heavily reliant on tourists, local

tourists, people coming from napa, livermore. >> the executive director of the jack london square improvement district says the area is typically safe. the oakland police department says overall crime dropped by 34% in 2024 compared to 2023. well, none of us in the studio felt it, but you did maybe if you're up by concord. a 3.5 magnitude earthquake shook concord a little bit this morning, epicenter about a hatch mile southeast of downtown, of course, no injuries or damage, but people did feel it around the bay area. it was the second earthquake to rattle the bay in the past three days after a magnitude 3.7 struck off the coast of san francisco friday. the dogs apparently don't care. that one, the 3.7, struck close to the epicenter of the 1906 quake. first alert weather powered by kia. learn more at kia.com. kia, movement that inspires. >> very beautiful car, but there is a lot of things going

on, wind. i guess we were complaining -- i was complaining about all that rain earlier this season, but that's really saving us. >> yeah. it's the number one factor in this whole story. if l.a. had gotten the amount of rain we've gotten, it wouldn't matter how strong these winds were. >> they've only gotten 0.16 of an inch since july? >> yeah. it's record setting in many places and if you factor in the two winters before this for l.a., those two winters combined were the two rainiest years in a row on record for them, classic example of weather whiplash. that's really what is behind this story, but the wind obviously is an important issue to discuss. we talked about their wind. now i want to talk about us tomorrow because we've already got offshore winds that have started for us. we're looking at the nighttime satellite. a little bit of the marine layer is trying to creep in through the city and this is updating to the minute, pretty cool. it's not going to get too far inland because the offshore winds will push it away, the same thing that

happened a couple nights ago. this pattern allows the marine layer to first develop and get pulled into the bay and very quickly in the predawn hours when these offshore winds really get going, that marine layer will get scoured out of here really fast. look up here. you see this batch of clouds up here? that's the midlevel stuff, the leading edge of this weak system that is providing the wind for us. let's get specific on what this wind is going to do. i'm going to remove the satellite imagery and instead put on the wind advisory. we've got a wind advisory in the north bay mountains tomorrow and if we look at what the actual numbers will be once again, your 50-mile-an-hour wind gust going across the peaks, this is typical for offshore winds. it's going to be a lot stronger in the mountains. the lower elevations do not have a wind advisory, but there is one important exception we should discuss. the east bay hills, if you look at the wind coming in

the way it's or oriented, it's hitting the east bay hills here and will likely downslope tomorrow. we'll bring up the forecast monitor to allow me to get more specific and slow down the progression of this. keep your eye on the time and watch what happens as we get into the early morning hours of tomorrow. the winds will start picking up here and i'm going to let this go until around like say 6:00 a.m. and that's when you'll see the deeper shades of orange really fill in for much of the immediate east bay. now we've got gusts in the low to mid-40s. this is just on the verge of needing a wind advisory here and the national weather service would take two things into account for this, how strong are the gusts and how long will it last. it's a three or four-hour window, not a long stretch of the day, but it will be tomorrow morning. there's your time at 7:00 a.m. it's going to be going through 10:00 a.m. or 11:00 a.m., certainly like 9:00 a.m. might even be the peak time frame and then the winds relax a bit as we get

into early afternoon. just be advised of that. if you've got loose stuff out in the yard, maybe make sure it's secured. it's that kind of wind, heads up. let's get into the seven-day forecast. i'll show you how things play out here. there is no rain, going to be cold mornings. i didn't even have time to discuss that, but for the next several mornings inland east bay communities have a frost advisory. your morning lows will be in the mid-and upper 30s. north bay valleys will do that as well. everybody else should stay low 40s and then we cool down in the afternoons towards next weekend, but no rain in this forecast. >> thank you, darren. coming up, the world's richest man is throwing his money around not just in u.s. politics, but in the politics of the world. we'll let you know where when we come back. straight ahead on "gameday" tonight, as the nfl playoffs roll on, what about the 49ers moving forward? >> i want to be in san francisco and play my football

career here. i love it here. dub nation, you know about the splash brothers. there's a brand of ball in berkeley known as the splash sisters. >> this is what we do, right? pickleball, anyone? >> i was totally impressed. >> really? >> yeah. that and more in a half hour show called "gameday" at 11:30. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ kia. movement that inspires.

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well, take a look at just how many people and donations have come flooding into relief centers across los angeles like this one in arcadia. thousands of people donated to help their neighbors. the images coming out of los angeles hit close to some in the bay area, which is why people here are also stepping up to help those in

need like vonnell osmidoff. she owns a beach clothing shop and is organizing a clothing drive. she lives in santa rosa and remembers what it was like to evacuate her home in 2017. she wants to make surefire victims have practical items, but also things to ease the emotional toll. >> i'm donating the stuff that maybe someone had something like that in their closet and it's like this really pretty dress. >> other people are helping out in different ways. violinist rose crelli held a benefit concert in hayes valley and hella bagels are donating their huevos rancheros bagel to the organization feed the streets l.a. there are a number of ways for you to help as well. just go to redcross.org/cbs to donate or call 1-800-red cross

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