chance to inspect some of the neighborhoods ravaged by wildfires. >> and there's a couple of times where i have broken down because it is intense. this is no joke. >> reporter: he stayed behind to fight for his home. now he's playing a critical role in the fire zone, while anxious neighbors wait to return and sift through what's left of their homes. >> it's a cease-fire and a hostage deal has been reached between israel and hamas. a long-awaited breakthrough in the middle east. >> elation, relief. a little bit of caution and fear. >> reporter: a break down of the cease-fire deal and how bay area activists on both sides are reacting to the news. >> it's hard not to feel overwhelmed. >> and later. >> the climate. >> reporter: the world's

fastest super computer. >> and making calculations every second. >> all the way up through eventually this. >> reporter: an inside look at the bay area machine, helping enhance national security. good evening. we begin tonight in southern california where a break in the weather is providing a huge boost for fire crews, trying to gain the upper hand in l.a. county. it was extreme winds that would cause the palisades and eaton fires to explode last week. just moments ago, a red flag warning expired for much of the region. so paul heggen will have more on that later. neither fire grew today, though they have been using infrared cameras to search for any hot spots deep in the fire zone. clearing out debris and

also search for remains. at least 25 people are confirmed dead and dozens are unaccounted for. so we will show you a map. they will show the damage in the palisades area where search crews have been able to reach so far. the each one of those red dots you see will represent a building, home, schools, businesses, anything that was destroyed. the other colors signal varying debrises of damage. now crews are still going through the destruction left behind, making sure it is safe for people to start returning. kelsi thorud is live for us in southern california. the she spoke to a man who is playing a crucial role in making that all happen. hi, kelsi. >> reporter: yeah, i mean you're talking about all the homes destroyeded in this fire. this is one behind me. if you walk over here to where the

homes are on, you can see it's perfectly clear. that's in part to one man who rode out the fires here, last week when they came through. >> the whole town son fire. the high school is gone. we still have water pressure here. >> reporter: this video is shot by chuck hart as his beloved neighborhood went up in flames. >> i don't even know, but it's all the way down to the beach. >> reporter: chuck spent that first day doing all he could to save his home and his mom's. >> can we get a little bit of water over here? >> reporter: miraculously he

saved both homes. but the rest of the neighborhood was flattened. chuck, who owns a local construction company, grabbed all the gear he could. >> loaded everybody up. chain saws in, like fueled up, ready to roll. just started to section trees and cut them up. >> reporter: for more tan a week now from sun up to sun down, chuck and his crew have been snaking through the destroyed areas. clearing trees and debris to help first responders get through. >> and so we did all of our cast. we did el niño, which i circled back through there. there's more trees that have fallen. >> reporter: chuck says the fires were so powerful that they seemed to have burnt many of the trees from the inside-out. creating a huge hazard. >> and so it is sitting there and then they snap, and a massive tree will fall down.

even though we cleared all the roads, we are going back again because the huge trees have fallen afterwards. >> reporter: chuck and his guys are doing all this work 100% on their own time and dying. it's been nice to feel like he could do something to help, but it is still difficult because it all hit so close to home. >> my guys, we pray in the morning. at the end of the day, there's been a couple of times that we have broken down because it is intense. it's no joke. >> reporter: he feels like cleaning up the streets he played on as a kid is the least he could do. he is happy that they were able to be here the last week to help, and they cannot wait for his neighbors to come back home too. >> these are wonderful people. they will make this place wonderful again. i'm sure that they are chomping at the bits to get up here to assess what's going on and get stuff underway. and 100%, i would support all that. >> reporter: and juliette, most

residents are still not being allowed into this area. that's because they will still remain very dangerous, you know, there is still power lines on the ground, water, gas, and firefighters are still going through to make sure the structures are stable. a lot of them are not. that's a huge concern. chuck is only in here because he did not leave as i said. if he were to leave, he would not be let back in. that's why he's staying here, doing as much work as he can. the one good thing for residents though, there have been police and fire out here 24/7. so everything is really secure. >> yeah, it is a calm night weather wise. thank you. meantime across town evacuees from the eaton fire in pasadena are being allowed back in to check on their homes or what is left of them. for some, this is the second time that they have had to start the process of rebuilding after losing their homes in the fire back in 1993. >> some of us, you know, we rented our whole lives and

finally scraped together to buy a house in l.a., which will feel like an absolute miracle. and then to lose it, it is just a lot of heartbreak. it feels like a loss of this community that we have been building. >> this week los angeles mayor, karen bass, issued an executive order to eliminate red tape and allow people to live in tiny homes and trailers while they would rebuild. and today, state farm announced they will offer renewals to residential policyholders that they have been planning. and it does not apply to anyone whose policy lapsed before the fire started last tuesday. if you would like to help the victims of the wildfires, you can go to redcross.org/donate or text red cross to 90999 to make a $10 donation. oakland firefighters say they could have prevented a house fire from completely destroying a home if the city

had not closed down the neighborhood's nearest fire station. it started on lockhart street, which is temporarily closed because of budget cuts. so firefighters say it took nearly three times as long for crews from the next closest station, station 26, near 580 to get to the house. no one was home when they started, but they warn this won't be the last time the closures could affect response times. and so the city manager are gambling, and and that is a full stop. before they would close down, crews could respond to those fires in oakland around four minutes or less. and several terrifying close calls as they lead them

on b a wrong-way crash in san rafael. it first started on monday. after the suspect's car was flagged by a license plate reader. police say the suspect would try to ram officers, then took off. they picked up the chase on highway 101, where the suspect was driving in the wrong direction. they backed off the chase for safety reasons. a patrol cruiser would swipe the suspect's car, causing it to smash into another one. chp immediately gets out and tells the driver to get down on the ground. they have their hands up from inside the car. and then dark smoke from a small fire that will start to come out from the hood of the car. they will grab the fire extinguisher. suspect was arrested and taken to the hospital. police say he was also taken into custody in

connection to a burglary over the weekend. fortunately no one else was hurt. all right, still ahead here at 6:00. activists across the bay area will reflect on the cease-fire between israel and hamas, and what it means

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people have been killed. refugees danced in celebration of the deal. and a more muted tone in tel aviv where families are hoping they will be among those released in the coming weeks. >> the road on this deal has not been easy. i worked here for decades. this is one of the toughest things i have ever experienced. i have reached this point because of the pressure and that it is a real build on hamas backed by the united states. >> according to bide p b, the deal will include three phases, each lasting six weeks. the first phase is set to begin on sunday with hamas releasing several of the nearly 100 hostages they still hold. over the course of the six-week pause in holding, they will be released in exchange for hundreds of palestinian prisoners. they will also pull back their troops to the perimeters and the aid that will start flowing again. over the last year and a

half, we have seen vocal calls for the cease-fire here in the bay area. demonstrations grew into encampments and building occupations on college campuses like uc berkeley, san francisco state, and also stanford. and demonstrators took over bridges, leading to dozens of arrests. we spoke to both israeli and palestinian supporters about how they are reacting to the deal. >> reporter: local reaction to news of the cease-fire has been similar from palestinian and israeli supporters, where they view them with mixed emotions, feeling a sense of relief. for two groups that have agreed on almost nothing for more than a year, the response to the day's news left everyone feeling unsure of what they felt. >> caution, fear, relief, elation. and they are all in there, but that's number one.

>> and we are heartbroken, relieved. this cease-fire is long overdue. >> reporter: the latest flare up began, of course, on october 7 of 2023, with the coordinated surprise attack on israeli citizens. and the violence, murder, kidnappings, led many to believe it was meant to force israel into a massive response. it was something tyler gregory of the jewish community resource center foresaw as he would address the jewish audience in san francisco the following day. >> and while the first priority is getting them out. the second priority is rescuing these hostages in that heroine situation. then we must be prepared and be resilient for the campaign that will follow inside gaza. >> reporter: they began immediately with israel releasing a furious attack including civilian locations and communities were reduced to

rubble. as they roared on, supporters would hit the streets with protests and civil disobedience, aimed at turning them against the state of israel. they could hardly believe they would be ending. >> we have been out on the streets, almost every week, you know, calling politicians, talking to the elected officials, organizing with our neighbors, whatever we could possibly do. you name it, to get someone to get us to this point of the cease-fire since day one. and the thought that maybe that might be ending today, it is huge, right? it is hard not to feel overwhelmed by the possibility that they could stop. >> reporter: in oakland, acknowledging that the local protest against israel would take their toll, leaving a lot of them feeling pretty isolated. >> we felt very alone as jews in this area and that people did not understand. and that we

felt that. and they also noted that the bay area is not necessarily the entire way the bay area would feel. that it might be coming to an end. but there is a similarity to the timing of this deal and what happened in 1981, when the iranian hostages were released just as ronald reagan, another tough talking republican was being sworn in to office after defeating one-term democrat, jimmy carter. >> and it does feel those vibes, the way this has gone down with biden and trump. and actually there is even a report on the times of israel, where they would accomplish more. >> and no one would think that they would be better for our communities. but it is interesting to note that it is

his threats and his urging that this will resolved before they take office that will coincide with when and how this happened. >> reporter: there are no winners. the question of their future is up in the air. on the day they were announced, people on both sides, they're wondering what, if anything, was accomplished by any of this. >> and their parliament still needs to approve the agreement. all right, still ahead, more than 11,000 computers combining to form the fastest super computer as we have a look inside the ground breaking ceremony happening in the bay area. and a day of critical fire weather conditions, but there is good news, while they're still present, they're weakening, and they will shift to become an onshore breeze throughout the next 36 hours around the bay area, where we are stuck. and

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for the advanced technology system. >> when people will talk about running on high performance computers, this is the main thing. and that is what's known as a blade here. then you could pack 64 of those into that cabinet here to get you 128 nodes, and then you buy 87 of those and you get to 11,136 computers. >> reporter: they come together to help lead the way in all types of research, including national security. >> we have climate and gene folding. all the way up through eventually nuclear evans. >> reporter: it means more testing and calculations to process classified information. the computer will soon run

sophisticated calculations, which will simulate nuclear detonation. >> we need to replace that to be able to understandable how they age. >> reporter: and they say he is proud of the researchers here that have been leading the way to enhance national security measures. >> that when we need them after they have been sitting there for 40 years, are they going to work? >> reporter: el capitan can make 2.79 calculations per second. what does that mean? let's say you go back in time. you would arrive more than 70 billion years before the big bang. >> and actually have results that will match those real experiments. >> reporter: they have been there for 24 years, spending

the last eight years, developing el capitan. >> and this is something that will help the country and world. >> reporter: doing research to help protect the nation. after a long week plus of critical fire weather conditions in southern california, finally some good news. still offshore for the moment, but they are weakening and they will become parallel to the coast tonight, and then a brief period of onshore winds is going to develop. and firefighters will be concerned about that, but they will take it because they will bring in higher humidity levels and help them to hopefully get some higher containment levels that are still burning. winds have

not been a problem over the past several days. let's see what things look like right now. clear skies overhead that the breeze, keeping the influence at bay for another 24 hours, but the fog will be sneaking in by tomorrow afternoon. temperatures at the moment, everybody in the 50s exactly in livermore to 57 degrees right now in san francisco. but with clear skies and light winds, temperatures are going to drop off quickly. and by early tomorrow morning, a mix mainly away from the water and that north bay east of the oakland hills. temperatures will be dipping down in the 30s to begin the day. it is a bit on the chilly side, but only three to five degrees below normal for the middle of january. and 68 degrees for the warm spots and in san jose and morgan hill. the most of the temperatures will top out above where we

should be here in mid january. some of the coolest spots are struggling to the upper 50s to around 60 degrees by tomorrow afternoon. and good dog walking forecast for a pup who has found a type bottle of wine, matching her name and they found a bottle of wine with a similar label. temperatures won't be a problem tomorrow with plenty of sunshine throughout the day and a little bit of haze. doesn't look like air quality will get any worse than the moderate category. but if you are sensitive to any breathing issues, you might want to shorten them up over the next several days. and they are not likely to improve or get a chance of rain to visit. and by pond had of next week, they are absent. specifically from the climate prediction center that will continue to keep us locked in to this weather pattern. some of the

data is hinting by the ten-day outlook. maybe this dry pattern would start to break down with signs about the 8 to 14-day outlook as that drier than normal signature will retreat to more of a typical january pattern and january rain chances, but that is far down the line. a look at your seven-day forecast, where we will start with inland and bay side temperatures, that will be similar to each other. retreating back closer to average through friday and into early next week. while the temperatures along the coast, they're also going to retreat to near average, which means you'll be cooler only in the mid-50s from friday through sunday and then as more sunshine will breakthrough, some fog over the weekend, giving way to sunshine

san francisco spca helping to free up space for animals displaced by the wildfires. 30 cats and dogs landed in the bay area today. the plane arriving at moffitt field in mountainview this afternoon. shelters were over capacity. local shelters will also >> norah: tonight, israel and hamas reach a cease-fire deal. our new reporting on how the biden and trump teams worked together to bring israeli and american hostages home. is there any indication about when your son, sagui, could come