bill melugin is live with more on that story. >> reporter: here in california it's no secret that democratsa total stranglehold on political power so these disastrous wildfires could have been an opportunity for them to show off competence and cooperation but instead many feel the leadership has left a whole lot to be desired so let's start with la mayors karen bass who wasn't even in the country when the palisades fire first broke out. despite forecasted strong winds and extreme fire risks, she decided to travel to ghana not to attend a presidential inauguration. she was asked today if she regrets the trip but she did not give much of an answer. >> looking back, would you have taken the trip overseas? >> you know, i'm going to focus today on what we know. >> reporter: the mayor and la fire chief have been at all it's with one each other -- one another in public with passing budget cuts to the department did not impact operations while the chief says otherwise. >> we are still understaffed, still under resourced and still underfunded so with that and whether it's 7 million, 10 million. >> w

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correspondent bill melugin is in pacific palisades. bill, i was just talking about mount wilson. such an important area up there. again live during the news conference. what other areas are they particularly watching right knout outside of homes. >> mount wilson was a big issue yesterday over the eaton fire. the infrastructure for media and law enforcement. palisades fire, heavy deep brush it's burning now. in pacific palisades to be frank it looks like a bomb went off. it looks apocalyptic right now. every street is wiped out. every single house on this street here. talking multi-million homes are gone. the only thing left of these homes for the most part is some stucco and typically their brick balconies. this home to the left has been wiped out as well. you take a look at the scenes here. we want to go higher up in the palisades looking where we are. you can see the ocean, santa monica. to the left lax with planes taking off and you see smoldering smoke as far as the eye can see. driving through here, 80 to 90% of the buildings we pass by are either completely destroyed or dam

i'm cheryl casone in new york along with bill melugin on the ground in pacific palisades, in california. bill, what's the situation there as the sun is now rising? bill: cheryl, unfortunately, this fire took a significant turn for the worse last night. it initially looked like it was laying down yesterday, then it flared up last night, and the fire pivoted. it shifted in a new direction, and we have a major flare-up this morning. you can see the smoke plume over my shoulder. in this fire has now gotten into mandeville canyon. this is an area or fire officials were very worried about. there's essentially one way in, one way out. it is the steep, rugged terrain with dry fuels and now the community of brentwood is threatened. i live in brentwood myself, evacuation orders have been going out, and unfortunately we got more santa ana winds coming in the forecast. that's the last thing we need to hear out here in socal. but we want to send it out to max gorden over near mandeville canyon with, get a live look at what's going on. max, what are you seeing? >> reporter: hey there, bill. you're on

bill melugin joins us from pacific palisades. , describe the devastation, bill. >> reporter: stuart, it looks like the the area was carpet bombed. honestly, it looks like the pictures we saw after hiroshima in world war ii, and i'm not exaggerating. i'll step out and give you a look at what we're seeing. pacific palisades, just one single street where every single house on this street has been completely wiped out on both sides. we are talking multimillion dollar homes. we've got melted cars. basically, the only parts of these homes that made it through are their brick chimneys. just rubble all over the place. take a look across the way, stuart. just in the last 15 minutes, this new random, i don't know if it's a spot fire or if something reignited, that just started. it looks like there are fire crews over there trying to handle that, but it is the just absolute devastation out here with more than 5,000 structures destroyed, and it's about to get harder for firefighters. take a look at this video. l.a. county has these two aircra

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bill melugin is near the palisades fire in west l.a., the most disruptive wildfire in the city's historyll, you said you have seen nothing like this. >> kayeigh, i haven't. we're in the pacific palisades which has been completely scorched. we're seeing an emotional scene behind us right now. we don't know these two gentlemen. it appears to be a father and son. they just walked past us. it appears this is the first time they are seeing their property here. the younger gentleman is crying. he's looking around. we heard him say "there's just nothing left." there's nothing. again we don't want to assume too much. we haven't had a chance to talk to them. they walked by us. they went through the front gate, and they both appear to be emotional. it appears that this would be their property and this would be the first time they're having a chance to show up here and sift through what is left of it. we don't know if it's a father-son. but the younger gentleman was very, very emotional. as soon as he came around this corner here, he put his hands over his face once he saw the house. and we did hea

welcome to hour two of fox news live i'm cheryl along with bill melugin on the ground in california, bill. you know these county officials are about to hold this news conference we're going take that live when it begins. what are you expecting to hear? bill: cheryl, probably a lot about the evacuation olders that went out last night and this morning this fire made a run starting at about 6 to 8 p.m. and it's been ripping this morning. so it moved north it shifted to the north and to the east. so it started threatening in spherngd like encino, 405 corridor, the sepulveda pass and it is burning there now, that is threatening the community of brentwood where there are some evacuations underway. we want to sending it out now to correspondent max gordon he's live in that mandeville canyon area last hour, we had scenes of big time flames moving through the area max, the smoke looks a lot better from our perspective over here. does it look to you like they're starting to get a little bit of a handle on it? >> absolutely. bill smoke has been laying down a little bit seems like the fire behavi

. >> steve: this map is amazing technology, that is live view, bill melugin is live in pacific palisadeith more on a new fire now. bill. >> bill: we are up to 10 people who have died in the fires. 5000 structures have been completely destroyed. what it is like on one of the many streets out here. every house has been wiped out. look at the rubble, nothing is left. only thing that remain on both side of the street are brick chimneys, nothing else made it through, every house has been wiped out and it is like that every street we've driven through in the palisades this morning. harder for firefighters, one of their firefighting aircraft, vantage super scooper is grounded now because it was struck by a civilian drone flying out here in this area yesterday afternoon and hit the plane in the wing and punctured a hole in the wing and need to be repaired. one of the two super scoopers have been grounded and cannot help with efforts. that is huge loss, the super scoopers dip into the oe ocean d can dump six tons of water on the fire. the faa is investigating, it is a federal crime to fly drones

i am bill melugin we will send you back to "life, liberty & levin." ♪ >> governor desantis.ica. i am perplexed. when you are a father you will do anything to protect your wife and your children. you are the military you will do anything to protect your country you are the commander-in-chief. you are the president of the united states you're doing everything possible terrorists are coming across the board at venice when gangs are coming across the border. criminals, rapists, murderers. the support for the police is weak. federal law enforcement is distracted with the preposterous priorities and so forth. what kind of mentality is this? even instinctively he run for president of the united states to become commander-in-chief fre.all of these responsibilitis you accept hippy it is a mind virus that causes them to put ideology ahead of actual common sense and tried and true principles you think about it there's a lot of opportunities to right the ship. i know it you'll see on january 20 president trump issue a series of executive orders. he'll be really strong on the border. i t

. >> bill: i'm bill melugin. this is "america's newsroom." they said jabbar was 100% inspired by isis. his half brother claims his radicalization for the attack. a glimpse into more of his upbringing and a new look what's inside of that suspect's trailor in houston. team fox coverage. brooke tailor is covering the investigation in texas but first to new orleans where garrett tenney is standing by live. good morning, garrett. >> good morning to you. fox news learned in the wake of this attack the f.b.i. and dhs have issued a warning to police across the country to be on the lookout for the potential of copycat attacks. to be clear, this is really fairly typical after events such as this one and we are told that this specific bulletin doesn't include any specific intelligence of a specific copycat event that they are concerned about. but here in new orleans investigators are learning a lot more about this suspect. what they are learning is that in the hours leading up to his massacre, the f.b.i. says that jabbar posted five videos to his facebo

one of his students was fox's own bill melugin who shared this quote. one of my journalism professors at cronkite asu and changed the trajectory of my life. i was considering changing majors, i didn't think i could do the whole tv thing. i was working an audio booth. he had a great combo in me that relit the fire in me. incredible teacher of the the intangibles including the ad-lib on the fly, how to have the confidence to do it, and the responsibility that comes with the job. his 9/11 coverage from the roof top was something we studied as student. brown was 76 years old. he leaves behind a wife, a daughter and two grandchildren. joey, send it over to you. >> joey: thank you, griff. president-elect trump says democrats are install the key picks of his party to be smar confidence in his cabinet. >> we have great nominees. work very well as you know. one of them are being thought of very highly, just about all of them. i think we are going to do very well. >> joey: joining us now to weigh in editor at the washington examiner kayleigh mcgee white. thank yo

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i'm bill melugin. securing the gavel could be a lot easier said than done. speaker mike johnson is looking to hold onto his title. with republicans holding a narrow majority, johnson can only afford one single gop defection and several lawmakers are still uncommitted. >> sandra: it could delay the trump agenda. jim jordan is encouraging republicans to fall in line. >> november 5th the american people said secure the border, bring down prices, bring down crime and stop the weaponization of government against we the people. the best way to get it done is to come together today, unite behind speaker johnson and start working with president trump to accomplish what the people told us to do. >> bill: john thune is here for his first interview since being recognized as senate majority leader but first to aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. you are dialed in big time on capitol hill. are we looking at any potential drama today with this vote? >> there could be, you never know with this house. i can tell you i have seen a lot of families here and kids of these repre

i'm bill melugin emperor jon scott and tonight is a boxer in the end johnson had bring in the big guns end johnson had bring in the big gun to get two of the defectors to finally come around after a phone call from president-elect donald trump congressman ralph norman and keith both changed their votes ended up back in johnson. trump said it was a quote great honor to help johnson get reelected. now republicans are looking to the future they will try to leverage their house and senate majorities to get trump's agenda rolling. and really quickly but nate foy is joining us in west palm beach with more on this. good evening to you. >> hey bill, good evening. after helping house speaker mike johnson secure his reelection yesterday, today president-elect donald trump is focusing on how he can best push it through his agenda in congress legislatively for a trump advisor tells fox news the president-elect prefers a single reconciliation package rather than a two bill approach. that's partially because of this lame republican majority in the house of representatives. >> he pretty much eat ever

let's go to bill melugin in pacific palisades this morning, good morning, bill. >> good morning. unfortunately the updates get worse and worse out here. we're now up to ten confirmed fatalities as a result of these wildfires, two of which were right here at the palisades fire where more than 5,000 structures have been destroyed, dana, it looks like a bomb went off out here. looks like it was carpet bombed. look at the street we're on right now. every single house that we are on this street has been completely destroyed, burned down to its foundation an both sides of the street. take a look. melted cars. the only things remaining are the bricks and chimneys. when you look in the rubble of these homes there is nothing left that would remind you people are living here. no tvs, computers, dressers, clothes, no nothing. look across the way. we continue having fires just break out here up here in the palisades area. that was not burning as of ten minutes ago. we don't know if it is a reignition or something new caught on fire. looks like the firefighters are on it. but that's just what

. >> this is a pox if news update, i'm bill melugin. funeral services for president jimmy carter.atlanta this afternoon. he will lie in repose until tuesday. he will then lie in state in the capitol rotunda at the -- in washington. >>> and at the white house, president biden president biden awarding 19 presidential medals of freedom, two of which are spark outrage, former secretary of state hillary clinton and liberal mega-donor george soros both getting the honor along with chef jose andres, u 2, singer bono, michael j. fox and magic johnson. for all your headline, head over to foxnews.com. you are watching the most powerful name in news, fox news channel. join me for "the fox report" just about 35 minutes from now. we'll see you then. ♪ ♪ >> it looks like we have a very big fan in the white house. aides to vice president revealing that kamala harris watches "the five." >> the reason that we talked about her initially on "the five" and maybe when she was watching then, we would try to give her really good advice. >> yes. >> i thought i gave her excellent advice that was totally i

prior to the attack that left when and how was apparently or radicalized by isis good evening i am bill meluginn for jon scott and this is the fox report. ♪ madison scarpino is driving us live in new orleans she is they are ahead of president biden's visit to the city tomorrow but we learned a whole lot of new details with that fbi presser today didn't we? scripts we did shamsud-din jabbar it traveled to egypt and canada in 2023. they are looking into how that may or may not have been tied into the attack. authorities are reiterating today they believe jabbar acted alone for they say the investigation is just getting started. >> our work is only begun for the fbi will continue to dig in and investigate to learn all that we can about this despicable attack. on behalf of the victims, and for their loved ones. >> authorities say jabbar it made at least two trips to new orleans and the months leading up to the attack. the fbi says by using meta glasses jabbar recorded himself back into the french quarter during this trip for the fbi says he has video recording glasses on during wednesday's attack b

bill melugin is standing in front of one of them and he is live in pacific palisades. now, bill.re talking a little bit earlier about the people who essentially are looking for an opportunity to loot and that is why it is very hard for reporters to get where you are. explain the process. we see nut morning. we don't realize how many times you were stopped getting there. >> bill: yeah. happy to explain it. so, we -- our station is about 15 minutes away from here. three or four checkpoints to get into the burn area. one time we weren't allowed in. they moved us down to another area. then we got to another check point asked show i.d. and credentials. got. in another check point where they again asked us to show our i.d. and credentials. then we got deeper into the burn zone here in the palisades. then when we got to the live location recommendation a patrol of lapd vehicles stopped by and once again asked us for our i.d. and our credentials. they're taking looting very seriously out here and we are glad to see it. the destruction is just jaw-dropping, guys. take a look. this is one

they say the truck, per bill melugin, excellent sources, multiple border law enforcement sources, sayingers at the borders in a pattern that may be suspicious for human smuggling. your thoughts? >> that could be. the border is wide open. i know from our official saying it is not closed down -- it's wide open. it's the wild west down there. it could be used for smuggling, and it can be used for terrorism. it can be used for just about anything. that's why we have to secure that border, lock it down so we know who is coming across and what they are driving, and give us some information. we are living in a lawless land right now, and this is just not working out for us, and we need to close down the border, start focusing on law enforcement and support -- >> danny -- danny, thanks for your time. we are running short on time but thank you for your insight. very much appreciated. folks, we will have more on this story after this break as those injured are still fighting for their lives in area hospitals. next. all the buzz around bitcoin isn't just talk anymore crypto has gone mainstream. at

bill melugin in for john roberts. are taking a look at new orleans, the famed french quarter, the city hosting tens of thousands of football fans in town for the big sugar bowl and that city is still a high alert at this hour, here's what we know so far, the fbi now says the suspect, shamsud din jabbar, acted alone and was in fact inspired by isis. agents have recovered three cell phones and two laptops come and right now, they're scrubbing through his digital footprint. >> sandra: they are also saying that the suspect posted five videos online right before the attack. jason williams is the district attorney of new orleans parish. he will be joining us in moments to discuss efforts to secure the city just hours ahead of that football game, 3:00 central t time. >> bill: we begin today with brooke taylor live in houston, texas, were fbi agents just searched a home where the terror suspect was living. brooke, what are you seeing out there? >> hi, bill. the fbi and s.w.a.t. left so we got this rare access and we were able

cheryl: bill melugin, thank you for your incredible work in los angeles. "fox news live" continues. anita: alicia: a new flare-up overnight as the fire moves toward mandeville canyon, now threatening the brentwood area. this as the santa ana winds are expected to pick up again today and continue at at an elevated level through wednesday. the fire, wildfires have killed at least 11 people, and 13 others remain missing. welcome to "fox news live." i'm alicia acuna. hi, griff. griff: alicia, it's good to be with you. we are here on the ground in the palisades area. this is ground zero for the devastation that's now destroyed because of the palisades fire more than 21,000 acres, more than 5300 homes and buildings have been totally destroyed. we're here at the united methodist church in palisades, and we just want to quickly show you some of the damage. you can see here entirely wiped out and here just beyond us a reminder of the fire that swept through here. you can see embers smoldering there, still among this. we have fire trucks and battalion chiefs going up and down the street so th

i'm bill melugin. it is 3 a.m. in new york.idnight here in los angeles, where several wildfires continue burning completely out of control. unfortunately, five people are confirmed dead in a fire in altadena. that is the eaton fire and almost 2000 structures in total between these fires have been destroyed. we want to begin our coverage with fox news national correspondent jeff paul. he is live on the ground near the pacific palisades fire. and jeff, we just got an update from fire officials that fire now at more than 17,000 acres. what are you seeing out there? >> yeah, when you drive. yeah. and when you drive through here, bill, it's easy to see why. i mean, it's not just these neighborhoods here in the pacific palisades. it's all over close to malibu. we drove up pch earlier. you could see fires all over the hills there. and we're also seeing a lot of this going on right here. these are this is an apartment complex. it was knocked down pretty much. i mean, the flames were knocked down. firefighters were out here for about an