we hear from actor dennis quaid, who was forced to leave his home. the message he had for bay area fire crews protecting his neighborhood and in the bay area. we continue to monitor the wind advisory across the hills and spring like temperatures to start the weekend. still 65 degrees in san francisco when the winds calm down. and if there's any rain ahead in that 7-day forecast when we come right back. tonight we are live in los angeles covering the historic wildfires. my look at the firefighting efforts from the front lines, plus the rush to help. we'll introduce you to the hot dog vendors who started a movement to feed evacuees and a movement to feed evacuees and fire cre struggling with the highs and lows of bipolar 1? ask about vraylar. because you are greater than your bipolar 1 and you can help take control of your symptoms, with vraylar. some medicines only treat the lows or highs. vraylar treats depressive, acute manic, and mixexed episod of bipolar 1 in adults. proven full-spectrum relief for all bipolar 1 symptoms. with dementia-related psy

thousands of residents forced to evacuate, including celebrities like dennis quaid. >> we're fighting as hard as we can. to save our city. >>> more homes destroyed. major landmarks at risk. this firenado flaring up. we're on the front lines with firefighters pushed to their limits. >> you're fighting the fires with swimming pool water? >>> and those dangerous winds? they're set to whip back up again. >>> plus, growing outrage. la's fire chief blasting city leaders, saying they failed them by not providing enough resources. the mayor responding today. our team across the fire zone covering every angle. >>> also breaking tonight, the snow and ice storm crippling the south. cars crashing on icy roads. thousands of flights canceled or delayed. an nba game postponed. when will it all fall out? >>> new tonight, special prosecutor jack smith, who had charged president trump, resigning today. >>> and back here in l.a., the street food vendors doing so much more than just feeding this devastated community. how they've started a movement to help. >>> this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz vill

. >>> dennis quaid is defending his home from the l.a.es and he is going to be joining us next. ...to empty nest... ♪ ...to free birds. ♪ vanguard. we got this. fifty years of helping you invest for every chapter. as the people you love get older, their risk of severe flu and covid goes up. last year alone, those viruses hospitalized nearly 1 million people 65 and older. that's nearly 1 million moms, dads, favorite uncles, and grammas. if someone you love is 65 or older, talk with them about vaccines, because to you, they're not just another number. >> jesse: fox news alert. for out of the five l.a. wildfires still 0% contained. zero. no sign of stopping. our next guest flew right above the fire last night. he was flying into lax when he smelled smoke inside the cabin and saw this out of his window. let's bring him in. mapped, of the scale of this fire must be just dumbfounding you from that vantage point. describe it. >> that's it. to try to process the scale, as we are flying into los angeles, on what seemingly was a clear day, the pilo

were given any senate the parent trap which my daughter got me into this a there's a thousands dennis quaidole. feel that rotten tomatoes, critics give this film 14% positive review which is like one of the worst possible reviews you can get. the audience score is 98% were the highest ever forest gump was only 94 shawshank was 93% the cells of the disconnect between critical sue may be liberal in that audience he loves it pickwick so typical. i don't look at rotten tomatoes when they see a disparity like that with the audience score, i want to watch that movie so bad. it's got to be good. i did not seat reagan. i want to see it. i did not even know there was a movie about trump called the apprentice. >> exactly. >> it is election season. everybody knows everything going on with trump all of the time. that movie must have been so bad or so an interesting did not even hit most people's radar because it always him and only forming box of the box office but how about that? you show me the trailer i can see why nobody wanted to see it but looks really stupid. it's going to get up for all of the

that means thousands more homes were evacuated late last night, and that included actor dennis quaid. the reason we mentioned that is our sister station, nbc los angeles, caught up with quaid. he said he had to go back to get passports and medication, and managed to grab his wife's wedding dress. he personally thanked our bay area crews from san ramon by name. danny, thank you so much. you're talking to the firefighters from san ramon and you were very grateful. they were very helpful. they've been trying to help all these people that have been lined up here. these are the guys that are running in when everybody else is running out. yeah. you know, and we're lucky that we have them and they, on a moment's notice will will do it and put their lives on the line. earlier this week, quaid evacuated his family. he says he came back to be ready to help put water on the flames. he took this picture with fire crews from fresno, thanking them for saving his neighborhood. and sports teams here in the bay area are coming together to help with relief efforts in los angeles, the bay area host comm

. >> yeah, dennis quaid was awesome in it so there's an appetite for these things, yellowstone for example television. a lot of people that are being overlooked in terms of audiences and trump gets that in hollywood should start getting that because you keep doing movies where you have the wizard of oz for example, takes place in los angeles and dorothy is going to be black and that's fine i guess but the original movie was perfect. don't touch it. just to have social justice? i'm sorry. david: you just get a sense that even hollywood and california in general realize that woke stuff doesn't work and they are fed up with it. you do see this beginning of a crack in the woke wall, even in the deep blue states like california. >> i hate to say it but los angeles looks like japan after world war ii. its got to be rebuilt. they know that these policies stinky and those ambassadors, these guys have trump's ear and will need a lot of federal help to rebuild. those have a lot of clout right now. david: they have to go, gavin newsom has to do what he refused to do in 2020 right before trump left. h

residents, including actor dennis quaid, forced to evacuate. >> our experience of reality can change in a moment. >> meanwhile, rumors swirling overnight after mayor bass's office denies reports that she fired l.a. fire chief christine crowley after remarks over budget cuts and lack of water. >> so, $17 million cut did not allow us to do what we needed to do and where that impacted us, specifically for palisades was our ability to move into reserve apparatus. >> the days long struggle to save lives and property impeded by hurricane force winds and a shortage of water. >> the whole neighborhood is flattened, it's gone, and it's just rubble and ash in the palisades. >> some fire hydrants at one point useless. >> we pushed the system to the extreme four times. the normal demand was seen for 15 hours straight, which lowered our water pressure. >> we're learning. the community reservoir located just beyond this ridge, was offline and empty during the height of the firestorm, undergoing repairs, according to the department of water and power. had the reservoir been operable, it would have

there were new evacuation orders overnight, which was very concerning for people including actor dennis quaidong those that had to evacuate. listen to what he told our local station, kmbc. >> who would have thought? you know, we it's we've all had a really big lesson. >> what is it that our experience of reality can change in a moment? >> you know. and that's. that's something that we just have to let god handle. >> and that really sums up the sentiment here, is that things can shift at a moment's notice. a lot of us went to bed last night thinking that we were going to get a much needed reprieve, because there's been a drop in temperatures and those wind gusts. but come midnight, we wake up and realize, wait, something feels off. we're noticing this orange glow. and i've just been seeing people on instagram and twitter and, and other platforms saying that they can see the same ominous orange glow. this is considered part of the san fernando valley, where more people than not can afford to live in the valley. not everyone lives in on beachside in beachside mansions, so this is an area where y

you've had several new evacuation orders issued overnight, including actor dennis quaid.ight now, 11 people total in total have been confirmed dead throughout all of the wildfires in southern california. more than 100,000 people have been displaced. officials are warning of a potential red flag warning that is forecasted for next week, which could last monday through wednesday. so there is definitely a concern here. there were some rumors overnight that there may be a change in leadership when the mayor of los angeles and the los angeles fire chief met last night, but both say that there was no change in leadership and that the fire chief is still very much in charge. right now, firefighters say that they are putting everything they've got toward this fire. but there has been some criticism from the chief, who says that those budget cuts, about $17 million, has impacted their ability to fight this fire. also, there's been an issue with water, no pressure in some hydrants, which allowed some of these flames to continue and homes to burn down. so officials are reminding peo

actor dennis quaid. >> our reality can change in a moment. >> reporter: rumors after mayor bass' officee fired kristin ley. >> with it impacted us with palisades was our ability to move into reserve apparatus. >> reporter: the weekend reprevious will be short lived. santa ana winds forecasted to return next week. efforts impeded by the winds and shortage of water. >> the neighborhood is flattened. it's gone. it's just rubble and ash. >> reporter: in the palisades, some fire hydrants, at some point, useless. >> we pushed the system to the extreme. four times the normal demand for 15 hours straight which lowered water pressure. >> reporter: we are learning the community reservoir was offline and empty during the height of the fire storm going through repairs. had the reservoir been operable, it would extend efforts on tuesday night, but only for a time. >> when our firefighters come up to any type of a structure fire or wind event or land fire, our expectation, so you know, there's going to be water. >> reporter: the governor of california calling for an investigation into the water suppl