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allison, stay with us, please. frost, a columnist for the radio times. caroline, climate change is one dimension of this story. another is celebrity. emma vardy alluded to that earlier. have you been comfortable with the degree to which celebrities these people have always been writ large on our screens. i don't think it takes away from the story. it's probably getting a lot more attention than it would were they not there. but i think we have to proceed with care as reporters that we don't somehow ascribe to them more capacity for suffering, and that it's somehow a worse tragedy than other things going on in the world. but the reason it's receiving so much coverage isn't only because celebrities are caught up in this. it isn't only because the areas affected are, in some cases, wealthy. it's also because this is a story which connects to macro issues that affect all of us, including, as we've been discussing, climate change. yeah, we have environment, we have social disparity, we have climate change that you menti

allison, stay with us, please.rost, a columnist for the radio times. caroline, climate change is one dimension of this story. another is celebrity. emma vardy alluded to that earlier. have you been comfortable with the degree to which celebrities caught up in this disaster have attracted coverage? i wouldn't say comfortable, but i would say unsurprised. i mean, just historically, we've always been very west—centric with our coverage of disaster across the globe. and as emma pointed out, the juxtaposition between the riches, the luxuriousness, the glamour of the setting and the suffering that some of these people are going through, and that is without taking away, as emma rightly pointed out, that celebrities form a tiny proportion of these people affected. however, we have homed in on them, as we always do. i mean, when i see somebody like paris hilton moaning her malibu home's destroyed, i mean, i do think that somebody like paris hilton probably has a hotel or two to go to, so it's unseemly. but all we can do is

let us bring in allison who is live in davos.rguments for including pe into pension funds is that big pension funds and institutional investors already invest so why not make this available to individual investors? allison: it is not clear that it has gone well. a lot of them are of not finding that they are getting their money back. even so, this is an investment that is very opaque and direct to market pricing. you do not know what you are getting really, until the fund matures. it is not clear that individuals would benefit from something. the risk is not only that it is illiquid and the argument is that it gives you a higher return because you get a gain for giving up liquidity. it is not just a liquid at a lack of transparency and regulation. so the least sophisticated investors really do not belong in something so lightly regulated and hard to understand. scarlet: what is easier to understand is charts that show you your returns. one thing you pointed out is that for all the talk that private assets provides diversity, unco

. >> joining us now, allison jaslow, an iraq war veteran and former army captain.aq and afghanistan veterans of america. >> allison, good morning to you. you and i spoke a lot in the lead up to this confirmation hearings about the concerns you had about pete hegseth, the questions you had for pete hegseth. has any of that been remedied by what you saw during these confirmation hearings? >> alicia. thank you. >> you know, i would say that no, it hasn't been remedied. >> and also, i think some of the senators who were on the armed services committee failed to show up and actually challenge him in the way that he deserved to be challenged as a part of that confirmation hearing. >> give me examples. who are you talking about? what did you want to see? i mean, let's name the names. >> yeah. >> i mean, you and i chatted about this when we were last together. alicia. you know pete. pete hegseth, excuse me? actively lobbied to get convicted war criminals pardoned. and these were men who were only convicted because men who served alongside of them, who experienced the same

let's bring in former obama fund-raiser and former democrat allison huynh along with former la g.o.p. vise chair and daily wire actor siaka massaquoi. thank you for coming on. allison, what do you think of the inauguration going indoors because the first time in 40 years, a lot of people are disappointed about this. >> i'm with president trump. i think he has americans safety at heart. of course the wealthy donors always sit behind the president and it's he did and it's the people who are outside who are just working class middle-class people and moving it indoors to capital one arena shows that he really cares about working-class middle-class supporters of his. >> trace: a lot of people are still angry because they spent a lot of money to go out there and see the inauguration action. siaka, incoming press secretary karoline leavitt said this about trump's day one agenda. >> i can confirm there will be more than 100 executive actions that are taken on day one by our new commander in chief to fundamentally change the federal government, to secure our southern border, to unleash the mig

cnn's allison chinchar is tracking the storm from our weather center. allison. yeah. >> that's right. so take a look. this is a live look at kansas city or what? you can look at through heavy snow showers and very poor visibility. it is 20 degrees there right now. and it's all part of this main system that's taking shape right now. the focus is really over the central u.s., but this is going to spread into the ohio valley, the midwest, and eventually into the mid-atlantic. as we go through the next 24 to 48 hours. and we have a little bit of everything on this map. you've got snow, you've got ice, rain, thunderstorms, and even thunder sleet mixing in in a few spots. you've got a lot of heavy snow really starting to wrap back around in wichita, kansas city, saint louis, paducah all getting a little bit of everything depending on where in the city you live. now we have all those winter weather alerts, as you mentioned, 1500 miles, because this is going to impact a tremendous amount of people in a short period of time on the southern end, where it's much warmer, mu

allison chinchar, thank you so much. and of course you can help those impacted by these devastating wildfires. go to cnn.com. slash impact. to get more information on how you can help. all the wildfires are pumping smoke into the air. and that, of course, poses a health hazard for the millions of people in southern california, an expert explains. the danger coming up. >> more than 50 million people are under those winter weather alerts after storms slammed into the southeast. when things will start to thaw out. >> plus, house republican leaders are expected to mar-a-lago for meetings with president-elect trump this weekend. what they are planning for the start of the new. administration this part changed my life. >> superman. >> crazy. just that simple little thing over the horse. >> chris wanted to change the world. >> people are literally walking because of him. >> super man. the christopher reeve story february 2nd on cnn. >> you don't stop being you just because you turn 65. >> but you do face more risk from flu and

let's get to our meteorologist, allison chinchar. allison. good morning. i know earlier in the week, we were talking about some hope that by friday, which is today, some of this might subside. what are firefighters going to face from the weather today? right. so there is some good news. we are going to start to see those winds begin to come back down. >> but it's going to be temporary because they are expected to come back up again on sunday. you look at scenes like this behind me. this is an after of what malibu looked like. so here's the pacific ocean down here. this is the roadway right through here. now let's flip to what it used to look like prior to the fire. you can see homes lining right there along the coast. you've also got a couple of structures and buildings on the other side of the road. now back again to the after again. you can see almost every single one of those structures is now gone. and again, that's what we've been seeing, not just in malibu but in a lot of the surrounding counties. now, for today. we do still have some area in the cri

cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is here now. today's winds are not expected to be that bad, but they're expected to pick up later. >> yeah, i mean, you're talking real narrow window here of opportunity for those firefighters. we are expecting them to pick back up as we go into the evening tonight. so there's not much of a window here, but they need to take advantage of it and they're happy to have it. when you look at the forecast here again, you've got both today and tomorrow where we've got that critical fire threat ongoing. you can see in a lot of places it's the same ones where they're dealing with the ongoing fires. we've got a lot of them to talk about. you look at some of the containment numbers. some of those have come up in the last 24 hours because we saw those winds die back down a little bit late in the day friday. they will stay that way through the early morning hours today. but notice, once we get into tonight, we start to see those numbers ticking back up again. and especially as we head into sunday. now we're st

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. >> and joining us now is our nbc correspondent allison barber, still in altadena. i've been watching all day. fires have been breaking out as you've been covering the story. what's the situation now? allison. >> yeah, i mean, ali, you know, it's really hard to wrap your head around some of what is happening here. and a lot of residents have been understandably frustrated that they see images on tv. they see us reporters out in areas where there's a lot of debris and they think, okay, if they're in that area, it probably is safe. why can't we go in there? i want to show you some of why the fire officials and officials in la, this county and others are saying, hey, stay away for now. still. so this crew, they've been fighting out this fire. we have been in this area for the last few hours. they just shut their water off. they're about to crank it, to put it back again. they are dealing with numerous hotspots of fires reigniting in this building. and this is about two long new york blocks away from another building where we saw the exact same thing happen in the last

allison jaslow, thank you so much for joining us, tom. you're going to stay with us, actually, coming up next, we're going to have more on pete hegseth, senate confirmation on the other side of the break, we're going to talk about the allegations, the sexual assault stuff. also ahead, what's happening in california right now that the national weather service warns could cause explosive fire growth? sean penn is going to join us to talk about relief and recovery efforts on the ground. plus, inside special counsel jack smith's election interference report, what he's saying about the evidence that they were able to gather against they were able to gather against donald trump. we are back in i told myself i was ok with my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms... ...with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok. and i was done settling. if you still have symptoms after trying a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq works differently. rinvoq is a once-daily pill that can rapidly relieve joint pain, stiffness, and swe

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cnn's allison chinchar is tracking it all from the weather center. hi, allison.hat do we need to know? and good morning. >> yes, i think the key component here is that how many places will be affected. you're talking more than a dozen states likely to see impacts from this system. this is a look at cleveland. now. sunrise should be happening just a few moments from now. but we've got a snow squall moving through so you can see that visibility is very limited. you can see even a few whitecaps right there on lake erie. now this is not from the main system. this is actually still from lake effect snow that is continuing across portions of the great lakes region. but the next system that's going to be coming into play, that's the one we're really concerned about, and it's going to present a huge swath of concerns over the next 48 to 72 hours. you're talking very difficult travel in some of these areas and likely some widespread power outages, especially in the orange, red and even the purple color there, indicating that extreme potential there. now, when we talk abou

let's go to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar allison chinchar to see what you're seeing with the datahere. alison. a lot of people watching these these winds with bated breath. >> that's right. yes. and the good news is we have seen those winds calm down in the last 24 hours. and they've been able to make some vast improvements in those containment numbers. but we would like a little bit more time. the unfortunate part is it's not likely to happen. you've got the red flag warnings and the fire weather watch in effect for several portions of southern california, in anticipation that these winds are going to start to creep back up. we're expecting them to be about 20 to 30mph sustained, gusting upwards of 50mph here as we go through the next 24 hours. right now, these are current winds. you can see we've got some spots that are calm three miles per hour, six, eight. those are still tolerable numbers, but in the coming hours we are going to see those start to jump. so you look at the forecast by this afternoon and into the evening hours local time, you can see they start jumping into the

ali. >> allison. thank you. and we're going to go right to getting some more answers to this information that you were just talking about with the person you interviewed. this is the la fire chief. we're getting an update right now from her and subsequently from mayor karen bass. so you can see there on the right of your screen. let's listen in. >> although it was devastating to see firsthand the destruction of this fire, it is tremendously uplifting to see the outpour of support from all over los angeles region. there are donations of food, water, supplies literally spilling over and out into our local fire stations that have become hubs for all of us to grieve, to have a warm meal, and to also gather together and support one another. your lafd, firefighters and everybody involved in these active fire incidences will continue to work relentlessly around the clock. i will now provide a brief update on the two active fires that are burning within the city of los angeles. palisades fire, air and ground crews worke

let's get right to meteorologist allison chinchar in the weather center. allison. >> yeah. that's right. the unfortunate part is we are going to see those winds go up. we've already seen that in the last few hours. you can see a lot of those winds picking up into the teens and even into the 20s. with anticipation. they get even higher throughout the day. you've got the red flag warnings in effect for today, but they're going to stay in effect through tuesday and even wednesday of this week. you've got the sustained winds that will get to 20 to 30mph. but those wind gusts likely to get up to about 45 to even as high as 70mph. you have not only today, but tomorrow, where you're looking at this pink area here, that's a level three of three, the highest level you can get for the fire weather threat. it's the extreme category, but also areas of los angeles slightly down, still in the critical area however. so all of these areas that you see on that map in the orange, pink and red color will have the potential for those incredibly gusty winds starting today. here you can see as w

allison barber starting us off this hour. allison thank you. as always. stay safe. it is worth reminding ourselves that we have yet to see the full scope of the devastation across la. this is already one of the worst natural disasters in u.s. history, and we have no idea what is coming this week with heavy winds in the forecast. latest figures from california show more than 12,300 structures. as we just mentioned earlier, now totally destroyed. that's everything. that's homes, businesses, schools, places of worship, all of it destroyed. all of it at some point must be rebuilt to bring people back. the question, of course, how one la public public adjusting firm examined other states that have battled fire events and estimates it could take years for victims in la to simply resolve their claims, assuming they had insurance in the first place. as victims head into this fight, insurance industry experts are urging them to stand their ground. as my next guest writes, think of it like a business transaction. give your insurance company the chance to do the right thing, b

they can make mistakes, allison. >> yeah, i think that's right. >> go ahead, allison.ion, we're credible and now it looks like that last half mile isn't going anywhere and i think there's a lot of inflationary pressure in the pike next year even if the trump administration is successful it will boost growth and potentially inflation, too, and that the fed might be in a bad position of saying we've never made our target, we were below and above target but since we've had a target when has inflation ever been 2? >> allison, i don't -- these things matter is i guess what i'm saying. if we saw -- no one is saying we're going back to jimmy carter years and, you know, we had a funeral yesterday, but it matters if you don't anticipate properly like when they stayed at zero too long, you can make the same mistake coming down too quickly. and that's what the markets, i think, is thinking, not just no cuts, but you really have -- this could be -- they could be raising by the end of the year. >> i think that's looking likely. i mean, like i said, i think we're right that maybe on

allison chinchar for us this morning. allison, thanks very much for that. so when most people were running from the flames in los angeles, some people ran toward the fires. one of them was the actress ashley scott. she and her friend helped friends in topanga county retrieve medicine from their homes and hosed down their properties ahead of the flames, and they stood side by side with firefighters. and ashley scott joins us now from los angeles. ashley, good morning. i'm so grateful to have you with us. tell us a little bit about what you've been experiencing. >> well, thank you for having us. this is my husband, forrest. i'm more than just a friend. >> very nice to have you as well. >> yeah. we, um, at this point in, in this journey, we are exhausted. i think all of our firefighters are exhausted. um, we. evacuated, uh, to another part of the canyon and got us out of danger's way with his mom, who has dementia. on tuesday evening, up and we got to, we were able to kind of have a bird's eye view of of the canyon. and the winds were out of control. as you al

allison good morning.h. >> good morning. >> and i think that's really been the biggest concern all along. >> it's not necessarily, you know, the fires that are there. we have several that are at 100% containment. it's all these new fires that just pop up. what happens to those, especially as those winds continue to rage throughout the day? here's a look at the red flag warnings that we have in effect for today. and some of these even go all the way through wednesday afternoon. this is both the combination of those strong, gusty winds up around 60 to 70mph, but also taking into account how dry the air actually is. but even embedded within the red flag warning, you have these two areas here, the kind of that darker purple pink color here where they are considered a particularly dangerous situation embedded. and that does include three of the four fires that we are watching. they are in one of those pdfs, but it also includes places like ventura, thousand oaks, san fernando. again, a lot of these towns and co

happy new year. >> allison, good to see you and happy new into the weekend. in the short term, however, we're still dealing with some rain and snow showers across portions of the great lakes and the northeast this morning. you can see a lot. most of it is kind of focused, more interior, but you do still have some heavy rain across portions of coastal massachusetts as well as maine. you've also got very strong winds, and that's not just limited to the northeast. it stretches down through the mid-atlantic, all the way down into portions of the southeast, georgia and the carolinas. looking at some of those wind gusts up around 40 to 55mph. now, that system this morning is going to finally start to wrap up as we go through later on into the day today. but right on the heels we have our next system. this will be spreading into the midwest as we go through the day. thursday could end up bringing some snow showers to areas just south of chicago before it spreads into portions of indiana by later on into the evening. those temperatures we talked about they are going

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alex, to allison's point there. i think we have just gotten so used to having an absentee president, like we're right across from the white house, right now. broadcasting. for four years like the lights are on but nobody is home literally and metaphorically, symbolically. now trump is on the scene everybody knows is he a problem solve are, everybody knows is he a deal maker. i think that emotionally for america is very, very important. i want to play adam schiff the juneier senator from california about possible conditions on aid to the state, watch this. i hope he can't help but be moved by what he has seen. and i would hope also from kind of partisan talk of conditioning aid to california. we have never done that when it comes to our fellow citizens who are hurting. >> alex, the question of conditioning aid, your reaction to that? absolutely necessary. if we don't do that the state will never change. there is no republicans out here. we have been tracking all of these city council meetings and other meetings breit

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you heard him there, allison. they need a break. will they get one?>> not in the near future, unfortunately, no, because now we're already starting to see those winds picking back up here in just about the last hour or two. and they're only going to go up from here. here's a look at the current winds. again, we're lucky we've still got at least a couple spots on the map with some single digit numbers, but more and more of them are getting up into the teens and even into the 20s. and those numbers are going to continue to go up through the evening tonight, as well as monday and tuesday of this week. you've got the critical and elevated fire risk, not only for the remainder of the day today, but also into monday. and again, notice it's not just los angeles. it's a lot of the surrounding areas too. when we look at these numbers, this is fast forwarding to overnight. tonight you'll start to see those numbers really begin to rise. those 30, 40, 50 mile per hour wind gusts. and especially as we get closer into monday and tuesday, it's not out of the questio

allison, you were in altadena. i just want to ask you about this containment. it's a word that we use a lot. if you don't live in or cover fires, it's not clear what that means. sounds really positive, right? we heard percentage numbers about these fires that are contained. all it means is that percentage of the fire they feel will not spread further. but i think you've got even newer information than i just reported to my audience about the containment of some of these big fires. >> right? yeah. >> and it's constantly changing and sometimes it fluctuates up. >> sometimes it fluctuates back down. let me run through the latest update we just got from cal fire. so the palisades fire, where we are now, that is now marked at 11%, contained the eaton fire, pretty big jump compared to where we were last night when you and i last spoke. they're saying, now, as of this morning, it's at 15% contained. palisades and eaton fires. those are the two largest, but we're dealing with a total of five active fires in los angeles county right now. in terms of the kenneth fire, th

allison chinchar. thank you very much for that, sarah. >> all right. for another look at the conditions in southern california. let's get to cnn's michael yashoda in altadena. that area, obviously, significantly impacted by fire, which is still just 33% contained. michael, give us a sense of what you're seeing this morning as firefighters brace for these really powerful winds returning. >> hey, good morning sara. when we talk about those winds returning, about that new fire about an hour west of me that popped up overnight. that's the perfect example of what officials have been concerned about and why over the last 24 hours, whether our crews been in the palisades and the brentwood area. we're now here in altadena. we've seen so many crews, whether it's fire trucks, cal fire, local departments, pre-positioning setting up in different neighborhoods to be ready for if one of these existing fires, if there's a flare up, if some of those embers get moved, or if there's an entirely new fire that gets going, they want to be ready to get as good a handle on i

so let's go to allison chinchar in the weather center. allison, what is the forecast right now for these winds? >> yeah, we are expected to get above that threshold that you just mentioned. we're not there right now. so the good news is those firefighters can still hurry up and get a little bit more of those containment numbers up until we reach those levels. but we are anticipating to get to a 30, 40, even 50 mile per hour wind gusts in the next 24 hours. you've got the critical and elevated fire risk for the rest of the day today, but also into monday. and that does include the city of los angeles. but a lot of the surrounding areas to where they're also going to be experiencing some of these really strong winds. you can see through the overnight more of those 20, 30 and 40 mile per hour winds are expected to jump back up. it could even reach as high as 50 to 60mph in some spots. as we go through tuesday and even wednesday of this week. so this is not going to be a short term event. we are going to continue to see these high winds, at l

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allison, what can we expect over the next few hours? >> right. so we are going to finally start to see these winds beginning to come back down. but it takes time. and you have to understand too, where they're coming from. look at some of these peak wind gusts that we know of 80, 90, even 100mph. so even if you cut those numbers in half, you're still looking at 40 to 50 mile per hour wind gusts. that is plenty to be able to continue to spread the fires and keep the keep the firefighters from really being able to make advancements in the containment because they have not one, but four separate fires. you've got the eaton fire hurst, woodley and also palisades. now, for those who are not familiar with this area, we've put some landmark spots on here so you can kind of understand the area. so here's where the hollywood sign is. dodger stadium a little bit down here, the rose bowl stadium. just to kind of put that in perspective. now the palisades fire specifically, we've been able to kind of map out where the fire has actually burned through this par

allison, what can we expect in the coming hours? >> all right, so the good news is we will start to see some of these winds come down in the coming hours. but you have to look at what they've been. look at some of these wind speed gusts that have been measured so far, 80, 90, even 100mph. so keep in mind, even if we cut these numbers, say, in half, by the time we get to the evening hours, you're still talking 40 to 50 mile per hour gusts. that is plenty to continue moving these fires along. and it's not just one fire, it's four. you've got the eaton, the hurst, the woodley and the palisades. now, for people who are not familiar with this area, we've put some points on here that maybe you would understand where they are. say, for example, the hollywood sign, dodger stadium, the rose bowl stadium. to kind of put this in perspective. now, the palisades fire specifically, again, having some of those areas that zoomed down where you could see where that fire was, one of the concerns is going to be the wind gusts here. again, you're still

allison, what areas right now are of most concern? >> right.imminently, the biggest concern is going to be across the central plains, as well as portions of the midwest. this is a look at kansas city right now. and it's a little blurry on the right hand side. it's not the camera that's broken. that is a thin layer of ice that has formed on the camera, making it very difficult to see the temperature right there in 21 degrees. now, we talked about this yesterday. there was going to be a thin layer of ice coming down a lot of these places, and then the snow on top of it, making it more dangerous on the roadways because you just can't see that ice. look at some of these numbers coming in several locations. we are talking at least a quarter of an inch of ice that can bring down trees and power lines, not to mention coat the roadways. but you even have colby, kansas getting dangerously close to half an inch of ice. and keep in mind, a lot of these places, it's still coming down. look at this. you've got the white indicating snow. you've also got ice.

allison? >> yeah.as been hugely helpful in a lot of ways, at least compared to what we were expecting the last couple of days. >> and you can see that reflected in the new containment numbers. right. the eaton fire, now at 55% containment, palisades fire at 22% containment. for the most part, we've been told by cal fire officials and other la fire officials that they haven't seen an expansion in this latest wind event of the palisades fire. and while they've been dealing still with some hot spots and smoldering areas over the last couple of days, for the last about three days, they have said they have not seen any active expansion of those palisades and eaton fire. a big question for so many people is when can we return home? if we were or are in a mandatory evacuation zone? we got an update this morning from fire officials. the los angeles county fire chief marrone saying in part in terms of allowing people back home, he said this, quote, we continue to plan for the repopulation of evacuated areas whe

cnn's allison chinchar is watching the storm from our weather center. what's going on? yeah. >> so this is going to be a pretty big storm in terms of size. we take a look. right now this is cleveland. again you can see what should be a very sunny day. but it's not. you've got those snow squalls coming in at times very heavy. now one thing to note though, this is from a separate system. this is really just lake effect that has been impacting not just cleveland but several other cities right there along the great lakes. but as we zoom out a little bit farther to the west, you can see the beginnings of what is going to be the next system to take shape. and that's the one that has the really big concerns about big impacts stretching from the rockies all the way over to the atlantic ocean. here you can see the orange, the red color indicating the moderate and even major impacts expected from that blowing snow. visibility could be zero in some spots, very gusty winds, which could lead to trees down and power outages. so a lot of impacts here over the next several days. now on

allison chinchar. thank you so much. we'll be getting back to stephanie elam on the ground a little later. sarah. >> all right. just over an hour from now, president-elect donald trump will face criminal sentencing for his hush money conviction in new york. the extraordinary moment coming just ten days before his second inauguration, his sentencing going forward because the supreme court denied his emergency bid to delay sentencing. trump is scheduled to appear in court virtually this morning. a jury found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. cnn's kara scannell is joining us from outside of the court and waiting for this to begin. kara. if he's not facing jail time and he's not facing fines or penalties, what will the consequences be? what will the judge be deciding today? >> well, sarah, right. he will not face jail time. he will not face probation or any fines, but he will have the stigma of being the first american president who is a convicted felon. and that is what we will see play out today when

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all right, allison, thank you. >> thanks, allison.well, two giant pandas have made their public debut at washington, dc. smithsonian national zoo. bao li and ching bao are the first pandas to be sent to dc in 24 years. the pair arrived at the national zoo last october from southwest china as part of the country's renewed panda diplomacy. >> and since then, zoo keepers have been helping the pandas get acclimated to their new environment. they were greeted by big crowds that streamed in throughout the day to see them. >> they are very cute and it's cute to watch them chew on those those bamboo leaves. or. >> you know, i just wonder if if at some point they kind of get over like, all right, guys, we're here now. >> go home the kids love it. >> my kids would love it. i would i would definitely take a trip there just to show them those adorable pandas. but yeah, they're probably like, stop looking at me. yeah, like. >> i'm just a panda. >> all right, still to come, we'll continue our coverage of the breaking news. the release of four femal

meteorologist allison chinchar is back with us. so talk about these winds when we expect them to pick up and how strong they might be. >> all right. i think like you guys mentioned, it's the two twofold component. it's not that they're picking up, but it's also the fact that they're changing direction. so all of those plans the firefighters had in place, they've now got to switch gears because the wind direction has shifted. and so we take a look at what we're dealing with both today and also tomorrow. notice both days we have both the elevated and critical fire threat, not just for los angeles, but a lot of the areas surrounding it as well. the firefighters have been able to make vast improvements in these containment numbers. in fact, the latest number we have for the lidia fire that is now finally at 100% containment. the other fires also increasing eaton fire gone from 3% to 15%, kenneth fire having gone from 50% to 80%. so they are making improvements thanks to the lower wind speeds. but that will change by tonight. we're goin

cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joining me right now. so, allison, what kind of temperatures wind chill are we expecting for d.c. this monday? >> that's right. okay, so not quite as bad as ronald reagan's second term, but we are going to get awfully close, especially when you look at some of those wind chill numbers. >> take a look at this in the morning leading up to the festivities. those temperatures are just going to be in the low 20s. factor in that wind, which is going to be gusting about 10 to 20mph. it's going to make that wind chill feel like single digits to maybe at the warmest mid teens. so again, very, very cold. the high temperature that day only expected to get to 25. so this is for the obvious reason of why they have moved things inside. it's not just as simple as putting on a pair of gloves or a scarf. it's a little bit more dangerous than that. now all of that cold air is coming behind this cold front here. so once that cold front begins to push out, all of that arctic air will begin to surge back into these areas, not

allison, thank you very much. and coming up, you know, the question that is already being asked, even as they are in the midst of what is a 9/11 moment for america's second largest city, what could have been done to prevent this utter disaster from wildfires spiraling out of control and wiping out entire towns and parts of los angeles? our coverage of the devastating wildfires in southern california continues after a brief break. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> it was one of the most remarkable stories in sports history. >> i don't want to be remembered as just a basketball player. >> kobe premieres january 25th on cnn. bank heist. >> i can't go back to jail. so what? did you rob my bank? sharing is caring, bro. >> let's make like, dice and roll. >> give it to me. >> rocky arceneaux stephen boss it's sick. time for. >> paint it up. pile it up. and you are the pinky webb. oh, true. good girls are gonna go bad. >> you were made to chase your passions. >> we were made to put them in a pac

. >> joining me now is allison chinchar.ison, you are in our weather center, and i know that you are seeing. scientifically what officials are feeling on the ground there about conditions, which is that it's impossible for them to contain. and it could get worse, not only with the fire spreading, but because of the winds and the dryness continuing to spread these fires even further than they already are. >> yeah, the wind is really been the key because i mean, we've both heard, you know, in some of these press conferences, you know, they had to they had to bring the planes down. >> they wouldn't allow the planes to go up to, to deal with firefighting methods, because the winds were simply too strong. and you need those firefighting planes out there. they help make a huge difference in combating these fires and help bringing those containment numbers up. so the fact that we haven't really been able to have them up there, that has been a huge disadvantage in fighting these particular fires. and it's not just one, it's four. yo

allison chinchar, thank you very much for that, sarah. >> all right. in altadena and pasadena, the fire has burned more than 14,000 acres and is just 27% contained. residents there held a donation drive for wildfire victims as search and recovery efforts continue there. joining us now is the mayor of pasadena, victor gordo thank you so much, mayor, for for joining us this morning in this crisis that you are currently dealing with. major, the fires have caused damage in your city and in adjoining altadena, which is next door. what is the status of the danger of that fire? right now that is just 27% contained. >> well, you know, first and foremost, our thoughts here in pasadena go out to all of the affected victims in pasadena, altadena, and the palisades. um, the fire, as you've been discussing here live on the show has shifted. the winds have shifted. where the where the winds were. heading towards an easterly direction. um, so, you know, in pasadena, we're still in altadena. we're seeing some smoldering. we're seeing some flare ups, but nowhere near t

with a closer look, here's cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. the inauguration is set for monday in washington, d.c., and it is expected to be bitter cold. >> the high temperature only likely making it up to 25 degrees when you factor in that northwest wind, it is going to feel like it is only in the single digits. this would make it the coldest inauguration since ronald reagan's second inauguration back in 1985, when the temperature was only in the single digits. now all of this cold air is coming in behind the cold front that's expected to bring rain and snow along the east coast as we go into the day on sunday. and that cold air is really going to drop. look at minneapolis. these are low temperatures, not the windchill. the temperatures themselves -17 in minneapolis tuesday morning. it's going to get down to 11 degrees tuesday morning in washington, d.c., the high temperatures not much better. even some southern cities like atlanta, for example, is barely going to make it above the freezing mark as we head into the early portion of this week.

let's get to our meteorologist, allison chinchar with more on this. allison. good morning and good morning. >> and i can confirm it is actually snowing outside of our downtown atlanta office. i ran out just before the commercial break to go take a look. and it is snowing in several places, pretty much most of the state of tennessee. you've got some heavy snow coming down across arkansas and missouri right now. and yes, even portions of northern georgia, northern alabama and mississippi. now rain is on the southern end. and as it starts to warm up here, sun coming up, you're going to see more of this start to transition more into a wintry mix where you get that sleet. the freezing rain and even rain mixing in atlanta sitting right at 32 degrees right now 29 in birmingham, 30 degrees in memphis. now we talked about as it warms up, you're going to see that transition more over to ice and sleet. and some of these areas are looking at pretty significant ice accumulations as we go through the day saturday. some of these areas a quarter of an inch maybe possibly as m

allison, what's the latest there?ber of acres burned and people impacted by it, it's hard to wrap your head around it. but we're in an area that's sort of a downtown area, kind of a main street of altadena. and i just want to show you some of what we've seen. this fire, this was not here a couple of hours ago when we first got here, but it has popped back up when you walk through this area, this community, you would be forgiven for thinking it's possible that you are in a war zone. because in so many buildings, so many places, you just see this walls minimally still standing and everything inside of it so charred. it's hard to make out what this business actually was. that's true of homes as well. come down this way and i'll show you where they're still working to put out all of these what are essentially hotspots. i mean, this area, there are fire crews all along here. they have been here for over an hour and a half trying to get these hotspots put out. and again, chris, this whole building, when we first walked by i