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one of them the sister of zaire. calvin and i spoke with zaire on first of all this morning about this loss for his family. >> it was earlier during the evacuation orders. um. just let her know that, you know, we had to get out of there. and, um, she was collecting her stuff and and presumably, um, i felt that she was on her way out. >> and you thought that she was safe, that she was out. when did you learn that she didn't make it out? >> um, so my mother's disabled. she's, um, in her 80s, and she has steps in front of her home. so when we were, it was a chaotic scene. um, about the time that we were leaving. and i knew we had to take time to get my mother down the steps. me and my cousin pj, he was the only person to help. and i had my wife, my one year old baby. and as we were leaving, i glanced and i remember seeing her car still parked out in front of the house. >> and did you go over to the house? >> yeah. well, i just made a yell, like went to the house. we got to get out. we got to get out. we got to go now. c

me and zaire, we went to rival high schools. >> he went to john muir. displaced. right. just like zaire said, altadena has a strong history of african american culture and activism. and so we will bounce back. and i'm just incredibly honored to be working alongside ben crump and andrews and thornton, our co-counsel, who has successfully sued other entities, corporate entities for fire litigation. and together we will get justice for evelyn mcclendon and other families in altadena. >> and this is real life stuff. when i talk to you and attorney crump on the phone and, and said i would come out and do a eulogy and whatever else we could do, i mean, i want people to get a sense these are real life people that lost everything. and of no doing of their own. attorney moore, before i let you go, i want to ask you about the incoming trump administration. trump has tapped right wing lawyer or harmeet dhillon to lead the department of justice's civil rights division that handles hundreds of. anti-democracy demonstrators. discrimination and voting rights cases. dh

zaire i am, and we all here are. so sorry for your loss. i want to start with with talking about your sister. when is the last time you spoke with her? was it right before the evacuation orders? tell us about it. >> yes, it was earlier during the evacuation orders. >> um, just let her know that, you know, we had to get out of there and, um, she was collecting her stuff, and and presumably, um, i felt that she was on her way out. >> and you thought that she was safe, that that she was out. when did you learn that she didn't make it out? >> um, so my mother's disabled. she's, um, in her 80s, and she has steps in front of her home. so when we were, it was a chaotic scene. um, about the time that we were leaving. and i knew we had to take time to get my mother down the steps. me and my cousin pj, he was the only person to help. and i had my wife, my one year old baby. and as we were leaving, i glanced and i remember seeing her car still parked out in front of the house. >> mhm. and did you go over to the house yeah. >> well i just made a yell l

but i spoke with evelyn's brother, zaire, about what happened. he says it was like watching a volcano movie. >> i talked to my cousin ej, spoke with him, came back. asked him to bring a shovel. he brought a shovel. he, um, asked me where. i told him where her bedroom was located and he took the shovel and he started moving debris around and in that he ended up finding her remains. >> zaire's wife, baby and his mother made it out alive. but their homes were destroyed. and of course, it's not just altadena. several communities across los angeles will need to be entirely rebuilt. reconstruction will take a herculean effort and pause for a second. and who do you think is going to be doing that work? just as the new trump administration takes power. according to the national association of home builders, which looked at data from 2022, 40% of labor construction force in california are immigrants. and for that angle of this story, let's bring in jenni murray. she is the president and ceo of the national immigration forum. good morning to you. and i've

. >> zaire calvin and his neighbor and friend philip solano both trying to cope with their losses. >> we've lost everything. our home, two homes like, didn't have time to get everything out of the house. >> the suffering is widespread and according to officials, it's not over as winds are expected to pick up again. >> i want to be very clear here as well. we are still under red flag warning and senator adam schiff with a stern warning to those in evacuation zones. >> if you're told to evacuate, then get the #### out. you might think you can outrun a fire. you are not going to outrun these fires. >> crews will continue to work through the night to get hopefully some of those big fires, even just a little more under control. and of course, the big fear is those winds kicking back up tonight. >> mike bailey o'carroll with us tonight here in studio bailey thank you. president biden now promising the full support of the federal government. he says that they will pay 100% for the debris removal and firefighting needs for the next 180 days. >> we are with you. we're not going anywhere. to th

. >> reporter: zaire calvin remembers the eaton fire surging toward the place he's called home for 47 years. getting your mother? >> getting my mother, we're going. i go to the left and car is still there. >> reporter: he says he thought his sister had managed to leave already. the next day, they located her. >> in the morning, sister's dead. there's no real understanding. there's no understanding. there's no way to even take it in. >> reporter: the family hit hard, but not giving up on their community. >> everyone is fighting. everyone is literally just asking, leaning on each other to say, what's next? what's the best thing to do? >> reporter: zaire telling me he is absolutely committed to rebuilding that community and he's not gonna quit until it's done. there is a concern by authorities. we have seen evacuation orders, fire, disaster. emergency alerts sent out on people's mobile phones. authorities are imploring people to continue heeding those warnings. they say lives are still at stake here. robin? >> michael: thank you so much, matt. now the deep freeze settling into the midwes

. >> zaire calvin and his neighbor and friend philip are both trying to cope with their losses. >> we'veerything. our home, two homes like, didn't have time to get everything out of the house. >> the suffering is widespread and according to officials, it's not over as winds are expected to pick up again. >> i want to be very clear here as well. we are still under red flag warning. >> and senator adam schiff with a stern warning to those in evacuation zones. >> if you're told to evacuate, then get the #### out. you might think you can outrun a fire. you are not going to outrun these fires. >> devastation there. crews continue, will continue to work through the night to get some of those big fires, hopefully just a little bit under control. the big fear, those winds picking back up. but i do have to say i know we were talking about this during that story, just how impressive it is that those helicopter pilots can make such calculated drops. and i know that's really been such a big help in this precision drops, indeed. >> i mean, but to think about it, neighborhoods changed absolutely forev

one man, zaire was separated from his sister who lived next door. he was able to evacuate his baby and mother, but the next day he found his sister's car outside, her home, and found her remains in the rubble. evelyn, why didn't you leave, he asked? why didn't you leave? one father, who refused to leave the side of his son who had cerebral palsy, fighting to his last breath, last words he said were to his daughter, baby, i'm getting ready to evacuate. i love you. baby, i got to go. the fire's made it to my yard. anthony mitchell, a hero. edgar mcgregor is well-known in pasadena for his daily trash pickups in the foothills. to the community he will be known for something more. in a facebook group he alerted residents two days before the fires to pack go bags. when it mattered most, he typed two words -- get out. get out. his simple post may have saved lives. people are surviving now, but only barrel hanging on. i spoke with patricia, at one of the shelters on the weps side. she stayed -- on the west side. she stayed in a hotel but could no longer aff