hearing stories from residents were forced from their homes that are now coming to light as firefighters are making progress and trying to slow the devastating fires that have just destroyed parts of southern california. thank you

for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 3. i'm justine waltman. firefighters are. >> slowing down the 5 major wildfires that are burning in the los angeles area right now. the palisades fire has burned more than 17,000 acres. the eden fire has scorched more than 10,000 acres. both of them have 0 containment right now. the hearse fire is at more than 600 acres and the fires have killed at least 5 people. and just destroyed communities from the pacific coast all the way to pasadena. 180,000 people are still under evacuation orders. and this afternoon we are hearing stories of survival. better coming out of the darkness in southern california will start now with kron four's terisa stasio. she's in our newsroom with a look. now we're hearing from residents who were forced from their homes and are they're finally getting a chance to go back and see if anything's left? well, it is certainly a very bleak situation in los angeles. grim conditions are painting a sad and starling reality.

>> this afternoon residents are speaking out, sharing their stories. >> i heard a commotion and i walk outside. my neighbors are looking in the distance and literally a mile from here on the hill are just shy in flames. just been increasingly facing fear up close with this fire is like less than a mile away from you. so you have like all this, you know, concern coming your way. but you also like >> oakland, native and now southern california resident shane reagan talked with kron 4 news thursday about watching the sun set fire in the hollywood hills ignite. >> the power of the power went out across the street. little lose connectivity might lose light. so i need to pack a bag immediately. he said that it was all so surreal. reagan have been keeping a close eye on the neighboring palisades and eaton fires affecting friends. this. >> horrible succession of seeing people. you know, you're like in syria like what's going on over here.

they're struggling. they have to evacuate some people's houses are being burned down. and then on the other side of town, it's happening and then, you know, it starts to happen to you. so i can do is really just stay attentive in. try to adapt quickly and consider, you know, evacuating yourself in a glimmer of hope. firefighters successfully stop the spread in the hills. >> pointing to the santa ana winds winding down a bit, even when you're inside it like. >> he gets through the vents almost it feels like so. and i have like pulled and he's actually sitting with me right here, george. in they have those flat really just want to be careful. want him to have the breathing issues as well. >> and while reagan stays with family for a while, others share how they feel compelled to help in this crisis. so i think jimmy carter said it best. maybe we can help everybody, but all of can help someone and someone was in her house today. >> so i think that that's the

most important part, right? like besides the politics, besides the distinctions, a religion decides all the nonsense and the noise is going on nationally. what matters today is that people are losing their livelihoods. they're losing homes. people are dying on top of that hill. >> thanks time. something's happening. >> and maybe i'm not as strong as it used to be. maybe i'm not as fast as i was. and when i was my 20's, but i still grab a shovel and do what i need to do. >> all right. breaking news now. we have some live looks here. what's happening in southern california right now. we're getting update on the eaton fire right now. let's listen in. >> be on site as soon as tonight. that may change a little bit, they will be assisting us with traffic control and critical infrastructure protection. they will be staged throughout the los angeles region and our emergency operations bureau is currently working on specific missions that they will

fulfill both in these affected county fire areas. the city of pasadena, the city of santa monica and the city of los angeles. this would be possible without the assistance of governor newsom who approved this request. he's been consistently on the phone with our leadership asking what we need. and we're very grateful for that. this effort will allow law enforcement to free up our resources and move personnel to other critical areas throughout the county. in a sense, becoming a force multiplier. i'm going switch gears a little bit. now earlier, there was a lot of questions as there should be about the death toll here in los angeles county as it specifically relates to the fire. anytime i talk about numbers, whether they are fatalities or we're talking about potential looting, arrest. i'm gonna tell you something. the number just

come. continuously fluctuates. and it's because we're still in a very chaotic scenario. and just to give you an idea and i'm surrounded by a lot of firefighters and the fire chief will come up and talk next. we're still working in a very fluid and active environment, meaning that there are still spot fires going on in areas. there's gas leaks. so when people are asking us for numbers of fatalities, we want to give them to you, but we have to wait until it's safe for personnel to be able to go in there and do this right because to some people, the death toll may just be a number to us on our side of the fence and public safety. each one of those numbers is a family member. we're going to have to make notifications with our partners at the coroner's office to let them know. but they may not. they're not going to see their family members any more. so just again, it's preliminary and it's absolutely going to

change. but as of right now and we stated this yesterday, we do have a confirmed 5 deaths between palisades and the eaton fire. but that number again, it's going to change as more information comes in and we start to get into the damaged area. the homicide detectives for the la county sheriff's department are trying to get into the locations to process the scenes, but they've been delayed for the dangerous conditions that i just spoke about. once homicide is able to get in there, they'll do the death investigations and then we'll have more complete information that a lot of people are asking us for. i also want to mention that our team has been working on a curfew. our goal is to attempt to implement a curfew within the specific impacted areas. aaron, a around the 2 fire areas, both for a palace aides at eaton. as we work through

the legal process to get that done. the goal is to try and implement it tonight. if we're not able to do that may happen. maybe by tomorrow night. that curfew looks like it'll be from 06:00pm. to 06:00am. again, 06:00pm to 06:00am. that will be the goal. we will be enforcing that. i think most of you heard our press conference earlier today. we had a number of looting, arrests throughout the entire county region that it is unacceptable behavior having additional resources having the national guard with this, which will augment those resources will help send a stronger message, keep people out of the impacted areas so we don't continuously

victimize the people who have already been victimized, who have lost. i hope that their homes, so we'll continue to work on the evacuation orders as soon as we can. we'll give you more specific information because a big legal part of that is that we have to notify our community of what it is and how that works. and just to wrap up for we have increased resources for our burglary and looting suppression. unfortunately, there have been crimes out there that have been reported to us by residents who have evacuated their homes. our deputies continue to do an amazing job of conducting humanitarian missions and they've had many, many rescues. and i do want to stress that the majority of the people they are having a rescue out of homes and vehicles are individuals that chose not to evacuate. not only putting themselves in danger, but putting the first

responders and more significant danger. so please, you hear this over and over when somebody tells you to mandatory evacuate, please evacuate. preliminarily, i know we're talking about 20 arrest preliminary. we have about 12 arrest related to looting. and again, that number hasn't been confirmed. we're checking that. we're also getting the number of about 16 and that's at to impacted areas throughout the county of los angeles, but will continue to collaborate. as i stated i'm in constant contact with the california office of emergency services. that's where we made the official request for the california national guard. i've been in communication with the commissioner of the california highway patrol. he's offered his assistance and we've deployed with his partnership, a collaboration, multiple chp officers for

traffic control around the area. my last item is this. if you have any questions about current evacuation orders or warnings. the many street closures that we have here in los angeles county. please visit la county dot gov. slash e emergency for updated information. and with that, i am going to now introduce the fire chief for los angeles county. that's looking fire chief tony maroney. thank you. sheriff luanne supervisor barger chair of the board. so i get a little bit by my comments to update for the eaton fire here in los angeles county that's affecting the unincorporated community of altadena. in addition to the cities of pasadena arcadia and sierra madre, we remain in unified command. however, we have added one unified command

partner cal fire incident management team 3 has been assigned to the incident to assist with recovery operations. recovery operations consist of trying to coordinate all of our human remain detection teams that will be going house to house to make sure that we can account for anybody who's been killed. in the fire. also setting up community recovery centers. they're also going to be doing damage inspection, coordination for us. so the eden fire is now estimated to be 13,000, 690 acres. it's grown since our morning press conference because the fire making a run towards the historic mount wilson area. we are still at 0% containment, but we now have a better estimation. the number of fire personnel assigned to the incident. we're not 1500 and

27 personnel assigned and like this morning, additional mutual aid resources to continue continue to arrive to assist in the firefight. this morning. we did have a firefighter suffered a significant injury in a fall. that firefighter is resting comfortably at an area hospital. he's in stable condition and he is expected to make a full recovery. we now have a confirmation that we have a potential for over 4 to 5,000 structures damaged or destroyed the definition of a structure could be a single-family residence, a multi-family residence, a commercial occupancy, out building or vehicle. so this morning i reported 1000. we are now reporting 4 to 5,000 of those types of structures. the cause of the fire remains unknown and under investigation. by the

sheriff's department along with the la county fire department and the u.s. forest service. the reason that the sheriff is going to be reporting fatality information because the cause of the fire is unknown at this time. if it turns out that this was an arson fire, any death that relates from an arson fire is considered a murder and the l a s the investigates those types of crimes, the number of resources assigned to this fire siege has increased significantly. and we are in a much better posture. then we were on tuesday and wednesday out of state resources continue to arrive in la county we're appreciative to all of our firefighters from throughout the western united states for providing assistance to los angeles county in our time of need regarding the current red flag warning condition. as i stated this morning, it's going to

continue for los angeles county and much of ventura county through friday. but i think we all realize that the winds have significantly diminished after the pds was canceled, 04:00pm yesterday. so we're hoping that the weather is going to continue to cooperate so we can get some perimeter line and on the fire. i would now like to invite up the operations section. chief for california interagency incident management team 5 don for julia. okay. good day. everybody like chief said my name is dawn for going represent california teen 5. >> to give you an operational update on what's going on on the fire right now as we speak and not going to talk a little bit to the map behind me. just so, you know, money is a pointer since it's kind of a small amount. okay. we're going to start over here on the right flank of the fire. this is santa anita canyon. we're currently actively engaged there with several hot shot. crews along the road and

along the canyon bottom. and we're being successful throughout the day today. we've had row during the opportunity to doing and fixed wing aircraft. the winds are still pretty high up there. so it's kind of a hit or miss deal. we get the aircraft up and we get fine. and then that it's just too dangerous for the pilots and have to come back down. so to constantly evaluation, constant use of that, that aircraft we're being successful when we're able to fly him as we come along the north end of the fire mount wilson was mentioned recently in this press conference. i want to, but no, the firehouse made it to mount wilson were actively engaged there in so far, no, no lost. anybody who's at risk of mount wilson? we're feeling good about what we have to do up there tonight. keep that site secure as we come across the top of this fire over here to towards the jet propulsion laboratory. we're making good progress here as well. values that risk obviously include the jpl among other things out there. so priority for me as an operations is, is this side of the fire over here is that is a high priority. we're concerned about the winds that

are potentially coming to outflank us in the coming days. so all hands on deck. we're going to work day and night and we expect to continue. you'll see some in the coming days. thank you. thank you from the operations section chief. so next up, are the arcadia fire chief chance went? >> remarks will be brief. my name's chance when fire chief for the city of arcadia. i just wanted to express my deep scratch in our deep scratch our committees to our public safety partners appear many were standing up here just for their work on the east end. i want to provide an a website for our residents and businesses. you can visit www dot arcadia, ca dot jovi backslash 2025. 1 storm or visit any of our social media platforms. thank you.

>> now will have passed in a fire chief chad. that stunt job. good afternoon. chat, augustine, pasadena fire chief. thank you so much for being here today. i had the opportunity to fly this fire this morning and the level of devastation is staggering. we're extremely thankful for all of a partner agencies here, local, state and federal. we could get a handle on this fire without them. and for my residents were committed to get back to full restoration as long as that takes and you'll have the continued support of everybody here in order to do that. thank you. and then sierra madre fire chief brent bartlett. >> good afternoon, partnered with the city sarah madre fire chief. again, as my peers are have already mentioned. thank you. goes out to our partners

in the efforts to managing and getting this under control. as far as for my community as future information can be found on the city's website. sarah madre, a cbs here in madrid dot com our next to next move is going to be looking at recovery and repopulation after we are get a better assessment of the damage within our area. so again, thank you for the opportunity. i'd like to enter introduced congress woman judy chu for our next speaker. >> congress member judy chu and i just took a tour of the destroyed areas led by mayor viktor garrido. and i could not believe the destruction altadena and pasadena mariposa junction, which had so many thriving small businesses gone institutions like the outed in a library and the altoona

community church destroyed on the homes so many homes that we saw with so many memories gone up. but one thing i have to say is that i have to really appreciate the first responders for making sure that the destruction was not even greater. i also want to say that there is help from washington, d.c., and president biden just announced something very, very important, which is has already been approved for the fire. emergency management grants. provides reimbursement for 75%. the fire fighting costs. he just announced that he reimburse 100%. the costs over the next 180 days. this is so important. the other thing i want to announce us at fema worked overtime to get their website going. so that now you can go to adopt disaster assistance, dot gov

and your information and you can see what qualify for and can't get your place in line for disaster assistance. and then the 3rd thing is that the fema administrator, deanne criswell is coming out here from washington, d.c., she toured the palisades site but she would be coming here later today. 2 to see what destruction here at 8. this is very important because fema has so many resources that are. individuals, small businesses, but also cities and locations can take advantage such as the clearance of roads. so help is on the way. i know. we will get through this and now i would like to introduce mayor victor gordo, pasadena. thank you. thank you. congress

member, let me first just say behalf of the city of pasadena. >> and our residents that our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected in the county of los angeles, including our neighbors in the palisades and certainly our community altadena, which we consider to be very much a part of the city of pasadena. i'd like to thank all of the first responders with the county of los angeles with the state those that are continuing to come to assist us. and it's, you know, it's not just those wearing the badge that are first responders. we have many civilians. we have red cross workers, volunteers. we also considered to be first responders in pasadena, our police chief and our executive leadership team is considering a curfew and we'll have more information as it relates to a curfew. certainly will welcome the augmented services and additional assistance of the national guard. and again, thank you to sheriff luna

thinking to the supervisor chief all chiefs for the work of your department's individually and collectively we're asking if you are under a mandatory evacuation order, those orders have not been lifted. and so we're starting to see people go back into those areas and our message to you is stay out of those areas until you hear officially that the orders have beenhlifted and you will hear that official word from the county and in the city of pasadena, from the city of pasadena. thank you very much. and i also want to thank the following individuals who are here with us today. >> showing their support state senator sasha, rene perez, assembly member john hervey tin assembly member jessica called call pasadena police chief gene harris. we truly do

greatly appreciate you all being here. i know i've seen you more than i've seen my husband and my dog in the last week. >> but honestly, this is what it's about. we talk about community. it's also about working together to make sure that we. to make sure that our constituents are served. so with would open up to questions. we did. that will conclude our speakers for today. we're gonna open up to questions pono barnes. we walking on microphone. so just state your name who you want. your question to be too. and where you're me year for. okay. yes. amy powell from abc, 7. >> question for sheriff luna. i know you said the details about the curfew are still being worked out. but can you talk about what that involved blocking access roads to parts of these communities and how that might affect residents. there's definitely going to be an impact on residents, but we will do whatever we can to brief the deputies and or national guard members that

are out there to be very sensitive to the needs of the residents. they've been through a lot and we'll try and help them out as much as we can. obviously a big part of what we're doing is to protect the properties that are there. so in regard to specific details of road closures, we will be putting those out to what that looks like. we will try and minimize the impact to our community. but we're also trying to maximize the security around there. so we'll try and find good balance. but i do want to reiterate that as we talk about. the the national guard being deployed and once the curfew comes on board, it's only going to affect the areas that have been heavily impacted by the fires. it is not a county wide curfew. it will not impact other cities in the county that have not been impacted. if looking at

us, we're drying up the paperwork. we're looking at those zones that were evacuated that were mandatory evacuations. that's where our mind that the winds still blowing the fire still not contained and we will be flexible enough to adjust to those areas and then take away areas where eventually we will be repopulating certain neighborhoods. the items that president biden has ordered the and done after january. 20th. >> that is a very good question. and executive orders can be undone by the next president. but i just hope president-elect trump sees that he needs to be a president for all of america

and wildfires don't have a political party. and if he wants to represent. all of america that he needs to make sure this continues to go through for the next 180 days. >> sheriff luna jo kwon with spectrum news. is maybe a dumb question. but as far as the curfew is, is somebody walks in past 06:00pm in those evacuated areas. how to how will that work? just so, you know, i've seen a lot of people walking just to see if their homes are okay. the neighborhoods are okay. they're frustrated. how is that going to work? they just cannot walk in there, though. get arrested. what you know, just lay that out for us. >> yeah, it's not a dumb question at all. it's a very good question. our deputy sheriffs police officers use very good judgment, common sense. the approach people, they'll ask them questions. obviously one of the first ones is where you live. they want to make sure that they

belong there. if you don't belong there and can explain why you're there or it doesn't make sense, there will be further questions. the last thing we want to do in law enforcement is arrest somebody. we don't want to take enforcement action. we're out here. we were on a life-saving mission with our partners at the fire department right? but if you have individuals and we've unfortunately encountered many not only arrested for looting, some for trespassing. and i believe a lot of our i believe our deputy sheriffs have prevented a lot of crimes from occurring just from. confronting people in asking him the very questions i just gave you examples of. so we will continue to do that. they listen to our community consistently because if we're doing something that is causing a significant inconvenience to the residents who live there, we will adjust. but remember, the mission is to protect those neighborhoods from anybody who wants to do harm. and

unfortunately, we've had some people trying to do that. follow up on that. and just want to follow know that that some of our elected ron phone call did a call with our town council. they are elected. >> for this, the county unincorporated area about the dina elected by the people about dina and this was a request that they made and mind you, the person that made the request lost her home. but she's doing it for the residents up there. i got a text last night from someone who evacuated who can't get back up, whose homes intact. but has heard there's looting taking place in his neighborhood. so this is done. and i have to believe that the vast majority people are going to support and they're going to work with us. and to the sheriff's point, it's not a perfect science. if you can prove that you have identification to be in there in our belong there. i'm sure the sheriffs are going to work with the but the end of the day. if you don't need to be up there, please stay away. it's still very active as it relates to fire and we still have firefighters doing their job to make sure that it doesn't spread. and there's a

right before the next question comes up. i just want to reiterate to our community that if you see somebody suspicious, somebody who you don't believe belongs there. dial 9-1-1. we have our deputy sheriffs in the other jurisdictions. they have police officers that are specifically assigned to what we call a looter suppression. i'm gonna tell you something. we have a lot of undercover deputies out there as well. if you call one of them, i encourage that too, because some of these guys and girls don't look like police officers. i'm telling you that warning people out there that are going to try him play on our community, don't do it. i'm telling you right now you're going to get arrested. and from my conversation with district attorney this morning, i 2 conversations with them. he's going to prosecute you to the full extent of the it is not worth it. don't try it here. sure. our whole nbc 4. well,

deployment of the national guard, will they be armed? >> yes, they are soldiers and they will be armed. i won't get specifically with from from a safety perspective for them. but i don't want anybody in the community to be intimidated by that. please remember, are members of the california national guard that are your neighbors. they're your family members and friends. as a matter of fact, a lot of deputy sheriffs police officers and firefighters are california national guard. they are our people. trust them. they're here. they're serving us and they're going to help us out a lot. and i just want to before we go chief jean harris city of pasadena, while we're talking about being a. >> we've got lord who sings ran chasing grants have back and i know want to. >> we've just got a lot of new information here about the eden fire that's burning in southern california right now. one of things that stood out to me the most is that they are saying anywhere between 4

to 5,000 structures have been destroyed just by that fire alone. the acreage has gone up. it's close to 14,000 acres right now and the fire is making a run towards the historic mount wilson. they are making good efforts, though, in trying to keep that fire from growing anymore. but there is still 0% containment. there's about 1500 personnel. they're trying to put this fire out and the number from the eaton fire alone still standing at 5 victims. but now they're trying to allow the sheriff's office and also members of the national guard that have been called in to help starting now to go into these burned neighborhoods so they can start to do assessment to see if there's any victims that have been left behind so that some of the new information we just got about the eaton fire. they also talked about trying to get a curfew in place. but there is a new fire that's burning right now in calabassas. this is some new images we're getting now into our newsroom from our station there in los angeles. firefighters are racing to contain this new fire that is

burning very close to homes in the area of calabassas in hidden hills. that's northwest of los angeles. this fire they're saying started just about an hour ago at about 2.30. they don't know the size of the fire right now, but homes as we can see here appear to be threatened. so there are mandatory evacuations in place here. some of the footage was showing us that helicopters were dropping retardant on the fire perimeter. so they're trying to protect the homeless right now. but again, this is a new fire that has just started near calabassas and hidden hills. so we're getting lots of new details here into our newsroom about what's happening in southern california. we have to take a quick break, but we'll be right back. we're learning

about a new fire that's burning right now in los angeles. this has sparked in the area of calabassas in hidden hills. it started about an hour ago. we're getting these live pictures now. firefighters there on the ground right now, possibly going door to door, trying to get people out because mandatory evacuations have been put in place. the size of the fire is not known but homes appear to be threatened. here is the camera zoom's that we can see the flames burning dangerously close to these huge homes there and the calabasas area and the smoke that's in the air. there are these water drops that are happening. but we can see the firefighters are people there in the background of the home. maybe they're trying to do some containment and fight the fire there. try to keep it from burning these houses. kyla is tracking the weather here. we also day on that live picture, if we could and talk a little bit about this, ok, we're going to come to me, but the live pictures kind of

interesting to watch because you can see that calabassas if we have the ability to go back to that, let's do that. >> bass's is a very affluent area. this is northwest of l a if you're familiar with the area is actually right near 101, just past topanga canyon. >> it is an enclave of a lot of folks that are well known to people, right? it's the celebrity kind of a space where people go to have bigger homes if they want to get outside of town. >> but it is unfortunately, really right along where those canyons are and sometimes with fire and wind, you can get wind of this squeeze through canyons and it actually increases the speed of the wind. it also dries out as it goes along and that can be even more threatening. now, keep in mind, this is also inland from where the palisades fire is that huge fire. that's about 17,000 acres. so it entirely possible that we've had some sparks that have come off of that fire as well. right? so this is where the palisades fire is. and this is actually satellite that is showing you the smoke that is streaming for that. i did just zoom in

here and i could see just another. and if you make it out there, but there's another tiny little when the comes right at the end of this loop. that is the calabassas fire that just started. obviously the other one that's putting out a lot of smoke here is the eaton fire that you can see. and when you can see fires on satellite, it is an indication of just how intensely they're burning, right, that you've got that smoke that shows up there. now, as far as the way that's concerned, it did ramp down a little bit in the overnight into the early part of today. having said that, it has now kind of gone back up. you can see where some of those purples indicating that we've got gusts that are potentially upwards of 40 50 miles per hour. if we put this into motion, you can see we are expecting that pullback again as we get into the evening and that should hold a little bit. now. listen, that doesn't mean that there isn't any wind. there's wind out there. you're looking at friday morning. now, but it is just not the extremes that we've been seeing. now we get into saturday and here we go again. we've got another push of win again. these numbers not as high as what we've seen, but it just lets you know that unfortunately, this fire fight is not going to be over quickly. and there is a

lot that firefighters are going to have to get through when it concerns this when before they get their arms around it. so that's why it's so tough. breaking news now in

to our newsroom. we want to go back to these live images we're getting of a new fire that's burning dangerously close to homes. this is out of calabassas. >> also the hidden hills area. this is a new fire watching the fsames there. burn near the tennis court of likely a multimillion-dollar home in a very affluent part of los angeles there. the call-up last this neighborhood, the smoke there also blowing. we are learning this fire started

about 2.30, this afternoon. they're calling this the candidates fire. it burning now in some very dry brush in this candy near the canyon area. and there's also some open space there. this is north of the 101 freeway. we don't have a estimate as to how big this fire is. but they are able now the sky footage forgetting here, they are able to put helicopters up to do some assessment and also trying to drop some water and around the fire's perimeter. they're trying to save these homes by dumping water. we are still getting more information about this fire. these images are quite shocking. we also have some new information about the eaton fire and the palisades fire at all. that's happening now in southern california will take a break and be right back.

>> welcome back, everyone. meteorologist kyla grogan here and you are looking support that is being flown in right now to help fight these fires. the newest fire, the kenneth fire now sitting at 50 acres. this is near calabassas, a residential area. lots of homes here, obviously very dangerous situation right now. and this has just broken out in the last, you know, about hour hour and a half. and they are trying to get some containment on that before it gets out of control. just to show you where this is kenneth fire calabassas is the area. this is right near 101. that's a little bit to the west of topanga canyon. if you're familiar with la, obviously not terribly far from the very large palisades fire that you see here that is now over 17,000 acres. we also have the eaton fire. that is the one that is out in the hills back behind pasadena, that one over 10,000 acres, not to mention the other fires that we've got

going on. one right in la proper there. the sun set fire. so it has been a very difficult day. they have had a little bit of help today from the wind and that it has ramped down a touch today. it's not as wild as yesterday, but it's picking up a little bit this afternoon. they are still under until friday now at 06:00pm. the red flag warning. obviously that is, you know, expected as we've got these fires ongoing. but let's talk about the wind again. i mentioned that as we got a last night, the kind of pushed down a little bit that really allowed the firefighters to get a handle on a few things and get a little bit of containment as we've got in the afternoon. these numbers are going up again. i dry right areas and reds and purples. now better news. it does look like they're going to pull back again as we get into the evening. and that will once again give firefighters a chance to try and get some containment. this is the overnight. and then tomorrow you can see we do okay. now the problem is we have more wind coming on saturday. so something to watch out for. stay with us, everyone. we'll stay with us, everyone. we'll be back right back with more excited about saving big

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>> national day of mourning to honor former president jimmy carter. there were services in the nation's capital today. it ended by many living presidents and their spouses now at carter's home state in georgia. >> there will be his final funeral as well. now the president carter and his wife are longtime volunteers for habitat for humanity. and today, the nonprofit honored the late president and oakland and san jose kron four's philippe to call shares how he is being remembered. >> habitat for humanity east bay silicon valley says the late president jimmy carter

and his wife rosalynn helped open doors for thousands of the nonprofits, homeowners by volunteering for builds across the world for 4 decades. and on thursday, the organization set up a memorial doors and the former president's foreigner outside city halls in oakland and san jose recognizing the tiny last spent in both cities for projects back in 2013, he was absolute down the it's hard to express how how incredible disconnect between what the power about 2 events, this milby when he here in person, habitat for humanity. project manager ben grove worked with the carters on 3 separate occasions, including their south bay trip. >> rogue, one of the many people who stopped by the memorial to inscribe the message honoring carter, we like to say is the most famous volunteer obvious as the case. he was so much more than that if excelled and autumn conduct. that's why the carters helped build to rupa lejos family's home in san jose is very nice guy. >> we help a lot of people.

countless more people have been galvanized by the example of a service to get involved with us. so we're so grateful for that. that legacy that he's left us with in san jose. philippe djegal all kron, 4 news. >> lots to go over today. one of the other things you want to talk about is our local forecast here in the bay area and meteorologist co gergen is here now to talk about that with a let's have a moment of gratitude again, right? that we are in the position that we are. and as our neighbors and friends and family members, a lot of people in southern california going through what they're going full day here, right? how lucky are we? how fortunate our way. >> here's a live look out at half moon bay. blue skies out there. just a gorgeous day. our wind not bad, right? 18 miles per hour in fairfield got 13 half moon bay. >> but holding steady all day. we do still have a little bit of an offshore flow, right? that's a drier wind. but still it's manageable. it's also warming us up. and i do mean warming us up. 73 in san jose got low 70's and the inner east bay. you can see it there. 66 right now in san francisco, head up to the north bay. and it's just wild.

these temperatures, 78 degrees when normal this time of year in santa rosa is 57 degrees, right? that's what 23 degrees above average. just crazy today. blue skies are certainly prevailing and we've got high pressure in control if it weren't for the fires. we be talking about how glorious it is and what a break it is from our winter. instead, what we've got is this high-pressure combining with a low pressure squeezing that when gradient together driving that wind offshore in southern california and causing such incredible devastation. it is a setup that is just the worst of the worst of the worst. and that is why you can see some of the smoke that is streaming on satellite. you can see it there in the eaton fire. you can see it here in the palisades fire. we have the kenneth fire right behind this one. that is much smaller. but still it is in calabassas a residential area, a very difficult situation smoke right now as you can see it, but being pushed to the south a little bit. but starting tomorrow would likely see some of that haze come our way. of course, what happens after that has everything to do with

what happens with the firefight and the wind and how they're able to get their arms around it. here's a quick look at our 7 day forecast again, we're lucky, folks. we have beautiful weather right now and our wind is not that we are going to see another push of wind on saturday. so deep, you prepared for that. that is offshore wind and we could see gusts 20 to 30 miles per hour. stay with us. we'll be right back. all right. we are

following new fire that's burning right now in southern california. it's being called the candidates fire. it's burning very close to homes in the calabassas in hidden hills area. that's just northwest of los angeles. that started

about. >> 2.30, this afternoon. it's grown already in size to about 50 acres. there are mandatory evacuations in place in some of the live pictures that we were seeing did show air support coming in trying to dump either fire retardant or water. and we saw fire fighters on the ground going door to door, not only trying to put the fire out, but also trying to get people to evacuate from their homes. so that's just another fire that's burning right now in of the los angeles area. and kyle has been watching the winds here and also there and the jurors. they're not getting a break you know, they did get a bit of a break. so unfortunately, as the afternoon has started to kick up, we started to see the wind kind of pick up again. >> this is what we're looking out for as we get into the evening. we should see them pull back a little bit more. get a scenario like we had last night where firefighters were actually able to get a little bit of containment on a couple of these fires. this will be as we get into tomorrow morning. that looks great. i love the look of that. unfortunately, it doesn't hold entirely by the

time we get to saturday, you start to see a little more offshore. wind rolling is not the extreme that we saw yesterday, but still it is on welcome. great to see that wind still there. so they still have a long way to go temperature wise. they have been warming up today to you can see as we take a look here, you know, long beach, los angeles, up in the upper 60's and even 70 degrees. as you look at santa clarita are one of the fires is not too far away from temperatures, not too big of an issue today, but combining factor along with how dry they are with relative humidity levels that are down in the 10's and even single digits of percentages. so that's making it very difficult. they do have this red flag warning now extended through 06:00pm on friday as these fires continue to burn. of course, we'll be continuing to cover it for you as well. back to you. thank you. and thank you so much for joining us here during kron. 4 is a 2, 3, we went over a lot of breaking news today. there's still much more to go over. i'm justine. appreciate your time. we'll send things over now to grant and vicki for what's coming up next on kron. 4 news at 4. all right, justine, thank you live today

at 4. yeah, we're getting much closer. >> at all, the devastation left behind by those wildfires burning. >> in southern california. >> and as some residents begin damage another fire has just started. vicki, as we mentioned, we'll have the details coming up there at the top of the hour of grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis. the news at 4 is next.

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