. >> today wire he emergency operations center for england with one activation so oversight board thatthe many activations have locations which probably has between to one hundred people at this time 340r7b 25 different city departments and hundreds of partner local partners and straight and fell partners we're in the echg a critical consultant of emergency center and surcharged with the single voice communicating with media about all issues with the apec and go a lot of preparation went into stemming up this e oc and little actuated managing things as they come up and the people in the room and making sure that everyone is in the next step and doing count work of a single set of objectives with a single idealogy in mind many is having an apec that runs smoothly. >> i basically organ the agency projects and um, whatever this is in-person, transmissions have (unintelligible) to we're never (unintelligible) i will get a response right now and (unintelligible). >> please check in. >> my role here in the agency to help the cooperation and the way to do that is by sharing information corres

rumbling) >> narrator: across the island in wailuku, officials had begun gathering at the emergency operations center. they were monitoring a fire that had started in the upcountry region overnight. back in lahaina, high winds were knocking down power lines. kaulana anderson, a foreman for the hawaiian electric company, was on the ground trying to deal with the situation. >> our day started off, we had some poles that was falling over. so we had to come down here and try and secure them, because there was rocking in the wind. and as we got those poles secured, we got another call up by lahainaluna school that another pole came down. >> narrator: it ignited a brush fire along lahainaluna road. >> power line just went down. (siren wailing) hey, the power line is live, yeah? the power line? braddah! >> narrator: less than a mile away, at the hale mahaolu eono senior living community, sanford hill could smell the smoke. >> i went out and went into my backyard and looked up the street at lahainaluna, and i could see all the, the fire department was right on the other side of the bypass, fighting a fire th

even the bureau of information set up a network in the emergency operations center to support response efforts. i want to thank all of these emergency responders, the volunteers, the local governments and the state employees whose quick and professional actions helped make these communities safe and secure, and to prevent further damage. i want to honor a few of those individuals here today that went above and beyond the call of duty. first i would like to have tim kalman stand and be recognized. tim is ours -- our south dakota state geologist with the department of natural resources. he saved lives with his water flow projections. without 10, we would not have had accurate rejections on the rising rivers. the data we were getting from the federal government and the federal river forecast center was too unreliable and we couldn't depend on it. tim gave us accurate projections to know when the crest was coming and we would have the most water hitting us. -- when we would have the most water heading us. conservation officers acted heroically to save lives. you all stand as well? i want t

happen at a moment's notice [♪♪♪] >> tay we are practising the activation of our department emergency operations centerhis is really an exercise for us to train, and we are using fleet week and the entire -- the italian heritage festival as the exercise. we have four different sections that are working today. there is operations, and operations basically is our contact with people out in the fields. they are finding out how things are going, and if there are problems, they are letting us know and we can identify through our action plan what what resources are needed and dispatch those resources. they will fill out reports and then the report gets to planning you will identify if additional resources need to be happening over a long-term timeframe and then they will provide for that by talking with our logistics staff. the logistic staff logistics staff is the one that will order labor, materials, they will do that, first of all, looking within our own organization, then if we don't have that within our own organization, they will contact the p.o.c. and then they will look at getting resources to us. an

system to partner with the california governors office of emergency services and the state alert and warning center. the counties emergency operationter is already tied in with the state's operation center and can actively issue emergency notifications in coordination with this state utilizing the state system. second, on the issue of the echo alerts, that continue to go out county wide yesterday, after the first erroneous alert was corrected, we've been working tirelessly with fema, fcc, the state, and our regions telecommunication providers and made the preliminary determination that the echoalerts as cell towers came back online after knocked offline due to this disaster. that outdated alerts were cashed in the system and as they came back online started being released to the public. we're very grateful to our federal and state partners who are working with the cell phone providers to make sure that all of these outdated alerts are flushed from the cell phone towers so that this ceases we're working with partners and providers to ensure that there's not a reoccurrence of the alerts going out in air. this has been frustrating, un

i am actually at our city unified emergency operations center, where we have all of our city departments, as well as automated emergency efforts with our state and federal partners, our entire city is on level one emergency response right now. it is just devastating to see what is going on in the palisades. we have several hundred firefighters on scene, actively fighting this blaze, which is not yet contained. we are still contending with the high wind conditions and the dry vegetation. this fire is on the move. as you have mentioned, we have unfortunately seen fire incidents break out in other parts of the city of los angeles. i want to be sure there is no need to panic. we have ample resources. an infusion of additional resources coming from all over the country. it is very, very important that people remember this is an active public safety emergency. we are not out of the woods on any of this. it is imperative that people follow the direction that they are being given from our firefighters and our law enforcement professionals. >> let me ask you about what we know and the fact and we

mayor, you are right now in the emergency operations center in malibu.'re having to deal with what's been going on since last week. and looking ahead, we just heard from those l.a. officials in that press conference that the fire threat is critical through wednesday, l.a. mayor karen bass says the city is making urgent preparations to mitigate its potential damage on top of what's already been lost. how are you preparing? >> well, we're in the same mode as they are, and we're all sharing the same resources. whether it's the fire department or the sheriff's department. in our case, uh, we've got major winds coming up. and while it's not as bad as it was a week ago, it very easily could be a repeat of what we had. if there's another fire, it'll move quickly. so that's first and foremost on our plate is to make sure we're ready in case another fire breaks out. we also got to take care of all of our residents that have been seriously impacted by what's already happened. so we're we're in multiple stages of repair and preparation for the future. >> the questi

. >> the office of emergency management and the county's emergency operations center took immediate action to issue a cancellation, and then also issue a second wireless emergency alert to correct the misinformation from the malfunction. >> los angeles county supervisor says the mistake was a result of a technical error. all right, let's bring in our meteorologist, roberto gonzalez. it has been a battle for those firefighters down south who, by the way, have been doing a great job protecting and saving what they can. >> roberto. yes, they have an extremely overworked at this particular time because that new blaze, as you were alluding to, mike the kenneth fire, it did break out at 334 this afternoon. let's take a look at the very latest conditions. the temperature has been very mild at 67 degrees. the relative humidity is very dry at 12%. and that's a typical off shore push right now. northeasterly winds at eight. and look at those gusts now 26mph. now we head to the foothills here in the altadena area 60 degrees there. humidity 16%. the winds are lighter and then we head more towards the

and when we are on the front lines, when we're in the command post, when we are in the emergency operations center, we carry with us our friends and neighbors. that is what this fight is all about. it's about those friends, neighbors, and loved ones who have fled their homes, those who have lost their homes, those who have lost their lives. to all angelenos, we are fighting hard for each of you now. as to contain the massive wildfires in southern california, most of those deaths being reported are still out of the eaton fire. this is in altadena now. eight fatalities there have been reported in that one. authorities say they likely do not know the true death toll yet. nbc news correspondent gina kim is live on the fire lines this midday. gina. gusty winds have challenged firefighters for days now. so how's the wind right now? well, marcus and chris, we're happy to report that the conditions are actually improving for the first time in four days. we have a little bit of a respite today. having said that, a lot of areas like where am here in altadena, a little bit calmer. other areas expected to exp

our resources, emergency operation centers are in coordination with the county and state. we believe, as best we can. and so, again, we're hopeful that the winds will die down and the fires can somewhat get under control. go ahead. >> i'm sorry. no, i was going to say, can you just take us back? there's always a temptation to race ahead to what happens next. can you take us back to the earliest hours when you realized the winds were not in your favor and that your community was in the direct path, and just tell us what happened and how you were able to successfully evacuate so many people? >> so we -- last night the winds started to pick up severely. they had predicted that. it came about 9:00. we started to hit some power outages across the city, and then with the emergency operations center, with the county and the state, we went onto what they refer to as an evacuation warning. so that's an initial warning to identify that this potentially could be a mandatory evacuation. that was maybe about 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. and then with the wind continuing, with its high

at a moment's notice [♪♪♪] >> today we are practising the activation of our department emergency operations centerhis is really an exercise for us to train, and we are using fleet week and the entire -- the italian heritage festival as the exercise. we have four different sections that are working today. there is operations, and operations basically is our contact with people out in the fields. they are finding out how things are going, and if there are problems, they are letting us know and we can identify through our action plan what what resources are needed and dispatch those resources. they will fill out reports and then the report gets to planning you will identify if additional resources need to be happening over a long-term timeframe and then they will provide for that by talking with our logistics staff. the logistic staff logistics staff is the one that will order labor, materials, they will do that, first of all, looking within our own organization, then if we don't have that within our own organization, they will contact the p.o.c. and then they will look at getting resources to us. an

. >> today wire he emergency operations center for england with one activation so oversight board thatons have locations which probably has between to one hundred people at this time 340r7b 25 different city departments and hundreds of partner local partners and straight and fell partners we're in the echg a critical consultant of emergency center and surcharged with the single voice communicating with media about all issues with the apec and go a lot of preparation went into stemming up this e oc and little actuated managing things as they come up and the people in the room and making sure that everyone is in the next step and doing count work of a single set of objectives with a single idealogy in mind many is having an apec that runs smoothly. >> i basically organ the agency projects and um, whatever this is in-person, transmissions have (unintelligible) to we're never (unintelligible) i will get a response right now and (unintelligible). >> please check in. >> my role here in the agency to help the cooperation and the way to do that is by sharing information corresponding activitie

. >> the office of emergency management and the county's emergency operations center took immediate actiona cancellation, and then also issue a second wireless emergency alert to correct the misinformation from the malfunction. >> now, an l.a. county supervisor says the mistake was the result of a technical error. time now, 754. we have dramatic new video to show you of the really scary early moments of the fire that raced along the pacific coast highway. look at this. on tuesday, one woman was rushing home to check on her house when she saw that big plume of black smoke spreading over her neighborhood. she grabbed her cell phone and took this video of that scene. she had no idea what she would find once she got home. >> it's hard to watch the fire, and there's no fire trucks that were there at that time. yeah, you hear the sirens, but what can you actually do? >> well, she quickly grabbed her belongings and she escaped with her four year old son from her burning house. she's now among the thousands of evacuees staying with friends or in hotels or in temporary shelters, all of them waiting

. >> the office of emergency management and the county's emergency operations center took immediate action to issue a cancellation and then also issue a second wireless emergency alert to correct the misinformation from the malfunction in l.a. county. >> supervisor says the mistake was a result of a technical error. all right, let's bring in our meteorologist, roberto gonzalez, right now. winds dying down earlier. but now, maybe possibly picking up here. where we headed? roberta? >> oh, yeah. they will be fluctuating, mike, for the next several days. and right now i want to go ahead and talk about what greg alluded to. and that is the kenneth fire that is now up to 960 acres. that's a lot, because this just started at 334 this afternoon. the wind gusts are up to 19mph. now let's go back to the east portion of the los angeles basin, where the air temperature right now is 63 degrees. at the eaton fire, the winds are relatively on the flat side, but the humidity is into the teens. then we head due west. now this is the palisades fire where the winds are flat at this time, but they will be flu

. >> we've got volunteers at the emergency operations center here in la to see what the needs are, ande're moving as quickly as we can, working around the clock to make sure we're helping people during their darkest moments. >> the best way to help is to donate money online to the red cross, or to offer to volunteer. for more information, you can go to our website ktvu.com and click on the link for this story. plenty of ways you can help. >> yeah, it's needed, it's needed. we need. so right now to help us get to where we need to go. how's the commute? >> well, dave and pam, right now we have one crash. i want to tell you about, in case you are a driver on the san mateo bridge. and that would be westbound 92 on the connector ramp to northbound 101. there's an injury crash there. and as you get off the san mateo bridge, right when you get onto foster city, you're going to see the backup there, and it's going to take you just a bit to get through that and get onto northbound 101. even if you don't want to get onto northbound 101, the westbound direction is going to be slow. if you're goin

. >> we've got volunteers at the emergency operations center here in la to see what the needs are, ande're moving as quickly as we can, working around the clock to make sure we're helping people during their darkest moments. >> the red cross says the best way to help here is to donate money online. there are also some in-person volunteer opportunities, but relief agencies say that fire survivors don't need blankets, clothing and food. those supply drives that we've seen in years past. for more information on how you can be of the best help, head to ketv.com. click the link for this report. los angeles unified school district announced all schools and offices in that district are closed today due to the raging wildfires. the district says there is a possibility it could have online learning for tomorrow. will will announce that decision for tomorrow's classes by 4:00 this afternoon. l.a. unified is still providing meals at certain sites, as well as mental health support services. now to the university level. ucla won't be holding in-person classes at all this week. instead, it's canceli

emergency operation centers remain activated at the highest level to rapidly coordinate emergency response. as we prepare for more wind, we are also urgently working to provide people with much-needed resources. this week as chair barger said, our city and county will launch in-person local assistance centers that are tailored to those affected by specific fires. these local assistance centers is for angelenos impacted by the palisades and hurst fires and they will open at the ucla research park formerly known as the west side pavilion. it will operate from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. seven days a week. these centers will help people who have lost vital records like birth certificates, drivers license, social security. they will provide referrals for mental health counseling and other offices. there will be representation for over 20 city departments. there will be representatives from the state and federal departments and agencies. later today, we are also going to be releasing policies on the city level that will help with the rebuilding process. so as we continue to go through these next few

hundreds of miles from there here at the california governor's office of emergency services state operation center in northern california. >> emergency officials are working around the clock all hands on deck here. that's how chris darden of cal oes describes the state response. officials here are actively working to get resources to the region as soon as possible with the governor's approval. so far more than 1400 firefighters from across california, 267 fire engines, 9 water tenders and 9 helicopters have been deployed. also deployed the california national guard. hello, yes, is working very closely with our state partners, our federal partners and our local first responders to get them all the resources they need to. >> conduct this firefight and help bring fires under control. it's a very scary, very surreal moment for state senator saucer in a pet is. >> in all literally hits close to home. not only is the eaton fire near pasadena, burning in her district. >> but several for family members in the area had to evacuate my on my brother, my cousins, you know, all live in sierra madre. >> and and

we do have our volunteers who we call gray shirts helping to staff the emergency operations centers asr. >> dana: what is the next phase? >> i think some of that remains to be seen to be honest with you. this is such a high toxic event. what do i mean by that? tens of thousands of structures that have burned to the ground. everything within those structures have been burned down into that ash. we're talking about asbestos, lead paint. interesting to see how state and federal authorities afroech cleanup because of that toxicity. we have a lot of experience in that. obviously we're standing by to support in any capacity we can. i think the more important thing is mitigating against the next wildfires. in the next 24 hours with the santa ana wins or fires happening throughout the hot dry summer months. >> dana: i wanted to ask you about this. the gray shirts, the volunteers. they don't just show up after a disaster. you work all year long to try to help mitigate and prevent what could happen in fire-prone areas. what do you think will happen in los angeles that could have? >> you know, in

when we were on the front lines, when we are in the command posts and emergency operations center, we carry with us our friends and neighbors. that is what this fight is all about. it's about those friends, neighbors and loved ones who have fled their homes, those who have lost their homes, those who have lost their lives. to all angelenos we're fighting hard for each of you. here is our city update responding to this natural disaster. lafd battled all night on the palisades fire, hurst fire, and air drops effort continue. they also responded to other fires. the griffith park including runion canyon will be closed through sunday. yesterday president biden pledged his full support for response efforts including fema reimbursement 100% of our disaster response costs. fema also launched resources and support for angelenos impacted by these fires. visit disaster assistance.gov to fly. we have worked with the governor and sheriff to secure the national guard to back up and free up our firefighters and police officers and play a key role in securing our evacuation zones to keep people safe

our emergency operations center is working around the clock, staffed 24/7. our public works department is patrolling the streets looking for hazards. our library has been open giving internet services and power the those who have lost power in the area. our hearts go out to the communities around us of that have lost so much, but calabasas so far has been very fortunate. we are without power, but the winds are blowing away from the city at this moment in time, and and we're just anxiously monitoring them like everybody else waiting to see what we can do and how we can be of help to our community. griff: and, mr. mayor, as you are seeing, the winds are shifting. so right now it looks good, but i've certainly learned being on the ground here just for 24 hours that the people here realize now in this unprecedented firestorm that conditions can change very quickly. is your are community fully prepared to act swiftly if things change for calabasas, and are there additional resources you feel you still need? >> the city of calabasas, again, is in good shape right

watch duty's map was projected on a wall in los angeles' emergency operations center earlier this months exploded, another blaze threatened homes near hollywood, not far from where padmanabhan lives. sekhar padmanabhan: that had an evacuation words basically just down the street. and the helicopters were going above my house and i could hear with the window. and i was watching it on watch duty. and it was really, it was a surreal experience, because, like, i report on these things, but then it's my place, that, like, ok, where are my cats? you know, what am i going to do with this? so it was a real interesting perspective, but also peace of mind, because i knew that we had a number of people reporting on it and that would get the information that i needed, my sister needed, everybody else needed. stephanie: so this is an app you would trust with your own life? sekhar padmanabhan: yes, absolutely. stephanie: at the end of 2024, watch duty had nearly three million app users. since the los angeles area fires broke out, that number has almost doubled. software engineer and entrepreneur john

, i'm actually here right now at the los angeles county office of emergency management, emergency operations centerwhere all of our emergency management partners, fire agencies, they're working together to make sure that all of the resources that are available to keep people safe and respond as effectively as possible, are implemented based on the forecasts that we're issuing ahead of time. we all work together as a community to keep people as safe as possible. >> and rachel cohen really appreciate that. thank you so much. i mean, there are going to be questions asked in good time, isn't there? yeah. you know, warnings went out, people weren't evacuated. yeah, but the fires are so much worse than anyone expected. our coverage of those fires continues in a moment. we'll be back. >> as the new year starts. follow cnn. >> president carter will be remembered for his lifetime of service, reporting the events shaping history. >> follow all the changes in 2025. >> i, donald john trump, follow the facts. >> follow cnn. >> a heart attack. >> do they have life insurance? >> no, but we have life insurance. >>

>> i am here in the center emergency operation center getting up-to-the-minute reports.ve got no reports of fatalities, and we have very, very few reports of serious injury. we had a firefighter last night have a serious injury, but beyond that, there isn't much yet. we may learn more in the morning. so far our personnel has been great, and people have been great. people have mostly evacuated when they've been asked to or when they felt like they should. some people have been smart enough not to wait for an evacuation order and we've been able to work around the traffic jams that we have. one thing i would say to everybody, if you see fire, evacuate. don't wait for somebody to tell you that you should evacuate. for goodness sake, it's one thing to stay and try to protect your home. it's another thing to stay to try to shoot video for tiktok or social media or something like that because when we have to go rescue, that pulls resources away from other things like structure fires, and so, again, folks are doing great, our personnel is doing great, but we've got to stay on i

. >> we've got volunteers at the emergency operations center here in la to see what the needs are, and we're moving as quickly as we can, working around the clock to make sure we're helping people during their darkest moments. >> the best way to help is to donate money online to the red cross, or to offer to volunteer. for more information, go to ktvu.com and click the link for this story. >> the l.a. unified school district, the largest in the state, announced that all schools and offices in the district are closed today because of the wildfires. the district says there is a possibility it will have online learning tomorrow. we'll announce a decision on that by 4:00 this afternoon, so we should have it for you in our afternoon and evening newscast. l.a. unified will still do the critical work of providing meals at certain sites, as well as mental health support services. ucla will not be holding any in-person classes this week. instead, it's canceling undergraduate classes and moving its graduate level courses online. a decision about what's happening next week is not made yet. the un

the emergency operations centers remain activated at the highest level to rapidly coordinate emergency response. as we prepare for more wind. we're also urgently working to provide people with much needed resources. this week, as chair, barger said, our city and county will launch in person local assistance centers that are tailored to those affected by specific fires. these local assistance centers is for angelenos impacted by the palisades and hearst fires, and they will open at the ucla research park, which was formerly known as the west side pavilion. it will operate from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week. these centers will help people who have lost vital records like birth certificates, driver's license, social security documentation. they will help people who've lost their homes or businesses, apply for disaster relief loans, and they will provide referrals for mental health counseling and other services. we anticipate that there will be representation for over city, over 20 city departments. there will be representatives from the state and federal departments and agencies late

we operated our emergency operations center even before the fire broke out. we have lessons learned in terms of unified communication to ensure that residents who are at risk of being impacted are on alert, and we're actively communicating with them even before a fire breaks out. and my office leads a community level training with our law enforcement and firefighters to ensure that they are prepared. now, that being said, the confluence of circumstances that we face in the palisades, the close to 100 mile per hour winds prevented overhead water drops, which are often the kind of assistance that on the ground firefighters need. some of the tools that we've been able to use in other circumstances. we couldn't because of how severe the conditions have been. and as you said, while winds have died down a little bit, we are going back into red flag warning on monday and we're not sure for how long we'll be back in red flag. so the conditions here are severe. they continue to be severe. our frontline firefighters are just digging deep with everything that they've go

i can't imagine, uh, what it would have taken to stand up the emergency operations center without, you know, that had thousands of people, including 4000 firefighters and thousands of civilians responding to this fire without the assistance of fema. uh, and i think it's irresponsible to simply say from one day to another, they're out. >> mayor victor gordo, we're certainly without proper. what did you say? i missed the last part of what you said, mayor. >> i said certainly to come to that conclusion without a proper analysis would be inappropriate. and in my view, irresponsible. what's the plan b? who responds in a situation like this within hours and stands up the operation that i personally witnessed and talked to you about? and uh, a few days ago. um, it's an immense, immense responsibility. >> mayor victor gordo, thank you for joining us. at this time. up next, controversy over president trump's deportations, the city of newark, new jersey, now at the center of it all, after federal agents reportedly targeted a local warehouse without a warrant and even detained u.s. citizens. the

. >> you know, we're here standing by our partners in the emergency operations center in the los angelesarea. >> make sure that we're working together to foster public safety as we go forward. we are past the peak of the destructive windstorm component of this event, with those 80 to 100 mile an hour wind gusts being in the past at this point. nevertheless, strong santa ana winds do continue across the region and will continue for at least the next couple of days. they are becoming increasingly confined to wind prone areas from the san fernando valley, san gabriel mountains, all the way through the santa monica to the malibu coast area, and with these winds remaining in the 30 to 50, occasionally 60mph range and very dry conditions, very significant amount of fuel loading available for these fires to burn through, we continue with critical fire weather conditions and red flag warnings as we head through tomorrow. so while we don't have the same extreme level of a destructive wind storm going on, we still are expecting fires to grow rapidly and explosively at times as this is continues to

our emergency operations center is open, as is fully g t really seriously, and i hope everybody else across america is, too. um, being with your family, making those memories, that is more important than, than than getting someplace really quickly. and everybody needs to be careful on the morning commute tomorrow, i closed our state office buildings. i've got 30,000 employees that i'm responsible for, and i'm going to make sure they're safe. so we took that step. many can work remotely. the others can can make it up. on tuesday. >> that's right. it's important to just slow it down in these situations and stay at home if you can. kentucky governor andy beshear, thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> still ahead, new details in the new orleans terror attack. what the fbi says the attacker was doing in the months, days and hours leading up to the new year's day rampage. plus, president biden signs the social security fairness act, expanding benefits to millions who will now collect a check. we'll talk more about that. you're in the cnn newsroom. >> i lay on

hundreds of miles from there here at the california governor's office of emergency services state operation center in northern california. >> emergency officials are working around the clock all hands on deck here. that's how chris darden of cal oes describes the state response. officials here are actively working to get resources to the region as soon as possible with the governor's approval. so far more than 1400 firefighters from across california, 267 fire engines, 9 water tenders and 9 helicopters have been deployed. also deployed the california national guard. hello, yes, is working very closely with our state partners, our federal partners and our local first responders to get them all the resources they need to. >> conduct this firefight and help bring fires under control. it's a very scary, very surreal moment for state senator saucer in a pet is. >> in all literally hits close to home. not only is the eaton fire near pasadena, burning in her district. >> but several for family members in the area had to evacuate. my on my brother, my cousins, you know, all live in sierra madre. >> and an

at a moment's notice [♪♪♪] >> today we are practising the activation of our department emergency operations center is really an exercise for us to train, and we are using fleet week and the entire -- the italian heritage festival as the exercise. we have four different sections that are working today. there is operations, and operations basically is our contact with people out in the fields. they are finding out how things are going, and if there are problems, they are letting us know and we can identify through our action plan what what resources are needed and dispatch those resources. they will fill out reports and then the report gets to planning you will identify if additional resources need to be happening over a long-term timeframe and then they will provide for that by talking with our logistics staff. the logistic staff logistics staff is the one that will order labor, materials, they will do that, first of all, looking within our own organization, then if we don't have that within our own organization, they will contact the p.o.c. and then they will look at getting resources to us. and t

. >> the office of emergency management and the county's emergency operations center took immediate action to issue a cancellation, and then also issue a second wireless emergency alert to correct the misinformation from the malfunction. >> an l.a. county supervisor says the mistake was a result of a technical error. >> our time is now. 508 the fire devastation is raising some new questions for all californians about how tough it may get to buy affordable fire insurance coverage in the future. so far, there's no official dollar amount for the damages in the l.a. wildfires, but some experts estimate it will cost about between 20 and $50 billion for insurance companies. consumers have been losing coverage as insurance companies try to adjust to worsening catastrophic fires. >> a lot of people around the state have been unable to afford insurance. even the rich folks in pacific palisades here in la, some of them did not renew their insurance coverage, which means they're not covered at all. >> depending on the magnitude of those assessments, that that could definitely be a factor that that ma

i set up an emergency operation center starting to prepare for it doing research, assessing what we hades and what we could do to address it. we got our first cases in march, march 10, and started to work our way through really what the state government could do to help facilitate keeping people healthy but also giving the flexibility to get through it together. we're in legislative session most of january and february, and we are continuing to fill in the legislators on this as will bring people to the table to figure out how to care for people. >> host: what were your thoughts when president trump at the very beginning of the pandemic announced or recommended to the country a two-week shutdown, two weeks? i think the message was two weeks to slow the spread. what were your initial thoughts on that recommendation? >> guest: i thought for our state that we would try to do that. i recommended that people do that. did not mandate it but also a health experts were telling us that we can have over, around 300,000 people thousand people in our state die from this virus, and so i held press c

hundreds of miles from there here at the california governor's office of emergency services state operation centernorthern california. >> emergency officials are working around the clock all hands on deck here. that's how chris darden of cal oes describes the state response. officials here are actively working to get resources to the region as soon as possible with the governor's approval. so far more than 1400 firefighters from across california, 267 fire engines, 9 water tenders and 9 helicopters have been deployed. also deployed the california national guard. hello, yes, is working very closely with our state partners, our federal partners and our local first responders to get them all the resources they need to. >> conduct this firefight and help bring fires under control. it's a very scary, very surreal moment for state senator saucer in a pet is. >> in all literally hits close to home. not only is the eaton fire near pasadena, burning in her district. >> but several for family members in the area had to evacuate my on my brother, my cousins, you know, all live in sierra madre. >> and and hav

hundreds of miles from there here at the california governor's office of emergency services state operation center in northern california. >> emergency officials are working around the clock all hands on deck here. that's how chris darden of cal oes describes the state response. officials here are actively working to get resources to the region as soon as possible with the governor's approval so far more than 1400 firefighters from across california, 267 fire engines, 9 water tenders and 9 helicopters have been deployed. also deployed the california national guard. hello, yes, is working very closely with our state partners, our federal partners and our local first responders to get them all the resources they need to. >> conduct this firefight and help bring fires under control. it's a very scary, very surreal moment for state senator saucer in a pet is. >> in all literally hits close to home. not only is the eaton fire near pasadena, burning in her district. >> but several for family members in the area had to evacuate my on my brother, my cousins, you know, all live in sierra madre. >> and and

hundreds of miles from there here at the calofornia governor's office of emergency services state operation centerifornia. >> emergency officials are working around the clock all hands on deck here. that's how chris darden of cal oes describes the state response. officials here are actively working to get resources to the region as soon as possible with the governor's approval. so far more than 1400 firefighters from across california, 267 fire engines, 9 water tenders and 9 helicopters have been deployed. also deployed the california national guard. hello, yes, is working very closely with our state partners, our federal partners and our local first responders to get them all the resources they need to. >> conduct this firefight and help bring fires under control. it's a very scary, very surreal moment for state senator saucer in a pet is. >> in all literally hits close to home. not only is the eaton fire near pasadena, burning in her district. >> but several for family members in the area had to evacuate my on my brother, my cousins, you know, all live in sierra madre. >> and and have all had to

at a moment's notice [♪♪♪] >> today we are practising the activation of our department emergency operations center really an exercise for us to train, and we are using fleet week and the entire -- the italian heritage festival as the exercise. we have four different sections that are working today. there is operations, and operations basically is our contact with people out in the fields. they are finding out how things are going, and if there are problems, they are letting us know and we can identify through our action plan what what resources are needed and dispatch those resources. they will fill out reports and then the report gets to planning you will identify if additional resources need to be happening over a long-term timeframe and then they will provide for that by talking with our logistics staff. the logistic staff logistics staff is the one that will order labor, materials, they will do that, first of all, looking within our own organization, then if we don't have that within our own organization, they will contact the p.o.c. and then they will look at getting resources to us. and then

emergency management. is calling the shots. for example, the sheriff's department, the department operations center. your your sheriff should be there in command of the resources at his disposal. he's a mutual aid coordinator for both la and orange county. and with that, he has to interact with the california office of emergency services. and he coordinates the resources that are going to be devoted to all the different fires that spread out in the entire region. and it is an ongoing process where you have so many different screens and a huge spread of different officials, and they're monitoring all the requests that are coming from all the mutual aid cities. and that gets funneled through the department of operations center to california oes and then sending resources, for example, the late arriving national guard, who should have been called yesterday. but they weren't for some reason. and then your preparation prior to this incident starting, did you pre-position all of your resources to be available to tackle this? once the fires were lit and preventative measures? are we out there in the wilder

liesed teams, crisis negotiators, swat teams, special agent bomb technicians, tactical operations center, emergencysponse team and a group of counter terrorism investigators. we bring in jason, thank you for being here with us today. he is a former f.b.i. agent and hostage negotiator. jason, you've worked all over the country. in this case you see the long list of teams involved. we know the property is searched, the suspect's home. i'm concerned when you have a suspect like this with booby-traps. with the long list of agencies involved they thought the same things. your thoughts on the teams involved here. >> that's exact will i right, molly. the field office in houston has enhanced capabilities being a larger field office. so the swat team would go in first and make sure everything was clear along with the tactical bomb technicians specially trained and cross trained as bomb technician and swat agent. they'll go in along with partners at the harris county sheriff's office and houston police and go and make sure everything is safe first and hallway and door by door and step-by-step. they use other

. >> emergency meeting called at the state department. >> long meeting at the operation center, speakerphonee connected to a different part of the embassy. the lines were left open and what happened in the course of the morning is that one after another of those lines went dead. as the attackers came in and took over different parts of the embassy and dragged these people off to prison. >> tens of thousands of iranians filled the streets of tehran. >> the hostages were taken, obviously, it was a major crisis for me and every american as well. i was to blame for it, in a way, it was up to the president to keep us away from having hostages taken. i gave the ayatollah a warning, if you injure a hostage, we will close every access between iran and the outside world. complete embargo against you and not let any ships or anything go to your ports. if you kill a hostage, i will attack you militarily. >> and expected it to drag on but it did . >> 98th day, nighty night bay, 100 day captivity of american hostages in iran. >> it became national obsession . >> 300s day. >> all across the country americ

calls an emergency contingency phase, it says it is acting to ensure the continuity of operations based on protocol for natural disasters. that means the fbi is relocating its 24-hour operation centersouth, from the westwood area of los angeles to orange county. agents will continue to monitor criminal and national security threats throughout the clock. >>> a number of animals are also stuck in the fire zone, this video showing people loading horses onto a trailer to get them out of the path of the kenneth fire. we are told they did make it out safely. and these ponies have been moved to a new shelter, after the one that they were in was destroyed by the palisades fire. rescue teams say they encountered rock slides, downed trees and burning homes but they were determined to get those animals out safely. humans and horses are not the only ones in distress from these southern california fires, beehives are also at risk. now a master beekeeping student from uc davis and his new organization are heading down south to help, patrick hardy will help the beekeepers evacuate and help first responders who encounter bee swarms. >> anytime we get a call out, we go directly to that swarm and he