. >> i'm anderson cooper in topanga, california. this is the northern edge of the palisades fire, which began early tuesday morning. thousands of structures have burned. tens of thousands of acres have been destroyed. firefighters have been working around the clock. they're putting water down now on a fire that just has. they've been trying to battle for the last hour or so to try to protect a community nearby from here over the next hour. we want to tell you the story of these fires. what happened, how the fire moved so fast, what we know about how it started at this point, and the stories of people who had to flee for their lives. >> 18 million people are under a red flag warning. >> the national weather service is calling this a destructive and life threatening windstorm a small spark could turn into an inferno in a matter of minutes. >> the warnings were ominous, frequent and at times dire. >> we knew that this was going to be an extreme event. they were talking a once in a decade event. three days in advance. >> we knew the win

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join anderson cooper for the whole story. that's tonight at 8 p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining us. i'm fredricka whitfield in atlanta alongside my colleague bill weir in pacific palisades, california. we'll get right to you, bill, in a moment. this is the breaking news that we're covering. firefighters racing to gain ground as massive wildfires tear through the los angeles county area. wind gusts are picking up, making an already dangerous situation even more treacherous. red flag warnings are in effect as santa ana winds are expected to strengthen later on today, continuing all the way until wednesday. the exhaustive firefight to save homes and communities is now in day six. overnight, favorable weather conditions gave fire crews a bit of a leg up. officials say the eaton fire is now 27% contained, but the largest of the fires, the palisades, remains just 11% contained. the fires are ripping across landscapes and neighborhoods. as you see right there, scorching tens of thousands of acres, killing at least 16. we u

. >> and tonight, cnn's anderson cooper is in altadena, california, one of the places hit hard by this fire where he says the fires are, in his words, are still just out of control. he takes us along to show us some of the heartbreaking devastation. >> there just are not enough fire crews able to deal with all the blazes that are going on. this house is completely gone. the next house next door looks like the roof is just caught fire over there. the fire has also spread across the street. there are at least three houses ablaze. and then the fire in just in the last 2 minutes or 3 minutes has spread to that vehicle, which was parked out front. um, there was a slight explosion as some of the gas went up. um, a fire truck passed by here. there's another larger blaze up there which they are going to try to to deal with right now. we're at harriet, uh, in altadena harriet street. the fire has spread now to this house, which is really now engulfed in flames. but, i mean, it's just surreal. i mean, look at this. even a small thing like this tree is burning from the inside. so on this block, i

be sure to tune in to the whole story with anderson cooper. it is next at 8:00 eastern only on cnn. and thank you so much for joining me this evening. i'm jessica dean. we're going to see you right back here again next weekend. we're going to leave you tonight with a view of snowy saint louis, as this massive storm makes its way across a big old portion of the united states. stay warm and stay safe out there. have a good night, everyone. to the whole story. i'm anderson cooper. >> for the past two decades, korean culture has been exported across the world. it's already here in the u.s. with hit tv shows, fashion and beauty products, and a genre of music called k-pop. k-pop is performed in both korean and english, and its stars are known as k-pop idols. groups like bts and blackpink are now household names with top hits on international music charts, but the intense popularity of these k-pop idols also comes with intense pressure to succeed. many start their careers as teenagers and have to navigate school and training inside of a strict work culture. over the next hour, cnn's kyung

right now anderson cooper is in pacific palisades. and anderson, as you've been there reporting today, you know, it was in a remarkable moment earlier you were witnessing just firsthand watching this battle to to contain these fires from the air. what has that looked like? what have you seen? >> yeah, it's been extraordinary. today we were up in topanga canyon, a small community called fernwood, a long a road called a melody lane. and we watched for about an hour and a half or maybe two hours, as, i mean, dozens of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft were dropping water and and fire retardant on a small spot fire that was threatening this entire community if the winds had shifted and it it would have swept up through all the vegetation, igniting all the vegetation, and then could have very easily destroyed the homes. the amount of air assets they put to bear was extraordinary, and it's a real sign of just the precarious situation. a lot of these communities are up in these, in these hills, in these mountains, in the topanga canyon area

cnn's anderson cooper was right in the middle of it. >> in altadena, the fires are still just out of control in so many, so many areas. >> this house has been burning now for quite some time. we've been watching. it has just spread to that tree. i don't know if you can see the entire tree is just incinerated within seconds. but the important part is look at all these embers, all these embers in the trees. they're now going through the air. they're now flying down the block to a number of houses which have not yet burned. and those embers. now, look, those embers have caught in that tree and that cascading effect. there's a lot of trees on this block. there's a lot of bushes. there's a lot of logs. >> whoa. okay, so there's a lot of explosions also, obviously as vehicles, as gas tanks, as vehicles ignite gas tanks explode. >> that car exploded probably about 20 minutes ago when we first got to this location. >> the situation is so unpredictable. with us now is fema administrator deanne criswell. administrator, thank you so much for being with us. i know you've been monitoring this aro

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anderson cooper is in the french quarter. anderson, i know you've been talking to people. you've been there many times. tonight is so different. how different of a scene is it on bourbon street from the many nights before? >> you know, it's interesting. we were here this afternoon when bourbon street reopened and city officials came. they brought in faith leaders who wanted to come to say prayers. and on this street, before it was officially opened to the public, a second line with musicians came in and sang, saying, we ain't scared in new orleans. they wanted to let people know that this city is up and running, and they got this street back up and running today. and i got to tell you, it is a little more somber, perhaps. there's fewer crowds than you might normally see, but there are already thousands of people on this street walking up and down. there are people out having drinks, the bars are open, the music is playing. and i think it's certainly a more somber day. and there's shock and there's such sadness in the city. but there is, as you said, you know, the sugar bow

anderson cooper and nick watt are right now on the scene for us. let's start with anderson, who just got to altadena, california, near the eaton fire. anderson, tell us what you're seeing on the ground. >> yeah, this is the results of the eaton fire embers coming from that fire into altadena. i'm on harriet street in glen. we have been here for about 45 minutes now. we have just watched this block house by house, systematically being destroyed. this house is now completely erupt in flames. jake, what happens though? what's so strange is the trees obviously catch fire. you can see. i don't know if you can see over there. the tree that's just now full. it's an ember tree. it's full of embers. and as the winds, you know, it's these gusting winds. pick up those embers and it can it can fly them for miles to any other location where an ember may fall. land on a vehicle, land on a roof, on a lawn and a fire. a new fire starts up. but this is very active. this entire street, this entire neighborhood. and we've seen dozens of homes here destroyed. i don't t

anderson cooper is in new orleans. natasha chen is on the ground in las vegas. let's start with anderson and anderson. as you are there, what is the latest that you're learning from officials on the ground? >> well, the i'm here on bourbon street, as you can tell, bourbon street has reopened. businesses have reopened. there are people here not hugely crowded, but there's a lot of people here. the bars are open. that was an important for the city to get it back up and running. just as a symbol that this city is not on its knees and it is resilient. as you know, there was the college football championship game here as well today. so there have been a lot of people in the city. i talked to the the superintendent of police, anne kirkpatrick, a couple of hours ago, right before bourbon street opened. here's some of what she said. what is the latest you can tell us? >> all right. so the fbi did a briefing about an hour and a half ago, and they were able to give updates associated with the investigation. the investigation is at the stage where they have confidence that

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as you heard there, cnn's anderson cooper takes us through another altadena neighborhood, now mostly lost to the flames. >> there just are not enough fire crews able to deal with all the blazes that are going on. this house is completely gone. the next house next door looks like the roof is just caught fire over there. the fire has also spread across the street. there are at least three houses ablaze. and then the fire in just in the last 2 minutes or 3 minutes has spread to that vehicle, which was parked out front. um, there was a slight explosion as some of the gas went up. um, a fire truck passed by here. there's another larger blaze up there which they are going to try to to deal with. right now, we're at harriet. uh, in altadena harriet street. the fire has spread now to this house, which is really now engulfed in flames. but, i mean, it's just surreal. i mean, look at this. even a small thing like this tree is burning from the inside. so on this block, i count one, two. i mean, all the houses, all the houses on this side are gone. >> just gone. it's really hard to believe. and

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cnn anchor anderson cooper is live in new orleans, and anderson right now. investigators are combing through evidence still, as the timeline of how this all happened comes into focus. where does the investigation stand? >> yeah. that airbnb you talked about, they found five cell phones, two laptops, as well as a number of items, obviously, in the vehicle. a change of clothing, the i.s.i.s. flag that was earlier reported. and that is what leads them to to to say that that he was acting alone in this and certainly in terms of here in new orleans, there had been a belief that perhaps in earlier on in the investigation, they thought maybe there were other people involved because of the placement of explosive devices in other locations. the attack itself ended just a couple of blocks down in that direction, and an explosive device was found several blocks further up. so he placed, according to law enforcement, two explosive devices elsewhere in in the french quarter before conducting this, this terror attack. i just want to play something that we heard from the t

cnn's anderson cooper is in topanga, near the palisades fire. anderson, what are the current conditions like and how are fire crews handling any new flare ups? >> jake, i'm on medley lane in a community called fernwood, which is part of topanga canyon. >> there has been a battle raging here for the last hour and a half. we have seen more air assets deployed in this one spot in that last hour than i've seen in any other spot in the last several days. it's been extraordinary to witness right now. you see this fire truck here? they're trying to save this community. um, of of fernwood. there's, uh, a number of structures here, a number of houses here, all of which have survived thus far. so they are now this fire truck is just pouring water, laying down this this curtain of water, just trying to soak up, keep this whole area wet. we've had more than a dozen, uh, helicopters, fixed wing aircraft flying very low over us. there was a fire down in that direction. um, which i'm not sure if it was a structure fire or some vehicles on fire. i've heard confl

but first to anderson cooper, who is on the ground in l.a. anderson, the wind has been the antagonist of this whole episode, but they're worried now that it could be back tonight. what are you hearing? >> yeah. i mean, so the wind today, by the way, i'm at a staging area in the pacific palisades along the pacific coast highway. law enforcement personnel, firefighters. there is a battle going on right now. tonight in with six different fires. as you know, there's a new fire came up today. the kenneth fire started out as 50 acres. last estimate i heard about an hour ago. it's at a thousand acres. um, but the the the two biggest ones that the palisades fire and the eaton fire eden is what decimated altadena yesterday, where we were the the the palisades fire still going on here. i spent the day up in topanga, basically watching firefighters try to protect the community of topanga. residential homes. they're very up in the mountains, beautiful area, very a lot of winding small roads, switchbacks, very difficult to maneuver if you're trying to esca

anderson cooper on the scene for us, as he always is. thank you very, very much. d, anderson, of course, we'll have much more later tonight from new orleans on his excellent program, 8 p.m. eastern. we'll be watching. anderson, thanks very much. and joining us now, someone who knows new orleans very, very well, the current president of the national urban league and the former two term new orleans mayor, marc morial. mayor, thanks so much, wolf. thanks for joining us. absolutely. you heard aaron's report and you were moved clearly, because you know the city, you know the people. and it's very disturbing. i give the city leaders great credit for reopening bourbon street, for doing it in a dignified fashion with prayer, which is part of the tradition of new orleans, with a second line parade, which is part of the tradition of new orleans, and also for taking that one day break before hosting the sugar bowl. >> we cannot let terrorism, terrorists, haters and divide us. dividers divide us and stop us. >> so it was an important statement made today to get bourbon street

let's go now to cnn's anderson cooper, who is near topanga, where the palisades fire has been raging. and, anderson, tell us what you've been witnessing today. yeah. so, jake, we're on sort of excuse me, jake, we're on the the northern edge of the palisades fire. >> you can hear helicopters. we've been seeing them all in the last several hours as we've been up here. they're dropping water in some cases and other cases, they're just trying to assess exactly where the fire is. this one's actually a looks like that. that's a chinook. that may be, uh, yeah. may have dropped some water. um, as i said, this is the northern edge of the palisades fire. and what firefighters are doing here. this is in topanga. there's a community, a residential community just over the ridge of this hill that we're on. there is a fire that is now moving up this side of the hill. it's just kind of dull down. it was more much more active about 2 or 3 minutes ago. uh, that big tree up there looked like it might burn. there's also another part of this fire which you can't now see. it is burned down temporarily, but

cnn's anderson cooper is on the ground for us in topanga, california. anderson. >> wolf, we're in the medley lane in the community of fernwood. i just want to show you what is happening here. this is a helicopter. we have seen. you can hear that siren they're about to drop water on a fire, which is down further down a little bit in this kind of valley area. we have been watching over the last hour or so, at least a dozen aircraft, helicopters and large fixed wing aircraft flying in low dropping, dropping water on that one area. it's unclear to me whether it was a vehicles on fire or a structure on fire, but it was black smoke, so it was some. it wasn't just a vegetation that was on fire. and look, they're dropping again. i, we have not seen over the last several days as many air assets in play as we have seen just in this one area over the last hour. it is it's truly been extraordinary to watch as you see also a fire crew on the ground is they have for the last hour at least, been basically pouring curtains of water down into this sloping hillside, tryin

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let's get right to cnn's anderson cooper in new orleans. anderson, cnn just authenticated some audio recordings belonging to the suspect, where he mentions satan. tell us more. >> that's right. >> these are several audio recordings that were uploaded to the audio platform soundcloud about a year ago, in which he talks about various sort of evolving religious beliefs he had, one of which was that he talked about music as being satan's voice, that it was something that he believed was leading people to things like drinking and, and drug use. >> um, whether that has any reflection on why he chose this target, why he chose bourbon street is unclear, but that's something that has come out. >> but look, investigators, jake, as you know, are they are trying to build a portrait of the last several years in this man's life to try to understand what the evolution of his life was, how it got to to this stage when it was that he had a religious conversion, when it was that he was inspired by i.s.i.s., and to what degree he pledged allegiance to them, a

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