in the pacific palisades, actress jennifer garner's home was spared.ut she's dealing with the loss of her own. >> i'm pointing to a street where a friend of mine lived and she died in the fire. right up there. so coming down here and seeing it, it's very, very real. >> reporter: amid miles of destruction, the national guard now standing outside fire zones to prevent looting. today, governor gavin newsom called for an independent investigation into the loss of water pressure in fire hydrants. this as outrage is growing and questions remain about what impact l.a.'s mayor, karen bass's budget cut to the city's fire department had on the response. our local station, nbc los angeles, pressing the city's fire chief for answers. >> 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.

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actress jennifer garner says that the palisades fire tore through her neighborhood, but her home survived. now, the actress is partnering with chef jose andres to help evacuees. she is working along volunteers with world central kitchen to feed people who are displaced by the fires. and jamie lee curtis is donating money to help fire victims after her family was forced to evacuate from the palisades fire. the oscar winner is pledging $1 million to start a fund of support for fire survivors. in a post on instagram, she says she's been in touch with state and city leaders to make sure the money is distributed for the most impacted people. and another live look at the palisades fire burning at this hour. another flare up this evening. more evacuation and you could see how big this fire line is as it's moving toward more communities. let's bring in our rob mayeda. you've been following the fires all evening, and this new flare up, the intensity of this fire. you know, we don't have the strong wind, but you see the flame lengths there 50ft or higher at times. this area, the hills here, south o

thank you for jennifer garner. thank you. thank you for allowing me to just, you know, steal you off the street, get you to come talk to us about all that's been happening. thank you. >> i'm so sorry for everything and for you. >> yeah, yeah, we will all make it. all right. joining me now, fema administrator deanne criswell, who joins us from the los angeles county emergency command center. i'm so sorry for making you wait. can you tell us a little bit about the response going forward? there is so much devastation here, and there's going to be such a towering amount of need. how does the federal government address that? >> yeah. thank you. >> i mean, i'm here right now at the county eoc, and i just received a briefing from them on the status of the multiple fires. >> right. we see the five that they're currently fighting, but there have been so many starts and the amount of resources that have been coming in. and, you know, the national interagency fire center is providing all of the resources to help support the firefighters

jennifer garner handed out meals to the evacuees and first respond's.ed her entire chose set to victims who will need clothing. and hen there's this, harry and meghan. they visited an l.a. fire evacuation site in pasadena. there's pictures of them. they're getting slammed by many people. hey, you don't live here, you live in montecito. yes, they donated, they opened their home to evacuees, but they call that that disaster tourism because harry and meghan, to to me, embody the woke culture that sort of created this mess. stuart: all right, lauren, i'll leave it at that. >>> right now pete hegseth's confirmation hearings are underway. it's on capitol hill. we'll bring you any tense exchanges, there have been some. >>> one family saved their home from the fires by using a pool pump. watch this. >> we always have a high fire risk here, and we know that going into this season. there's no doubt in my mind that the setup that we had was what saved our house. stuart: they pumped the water out of the pool the douse the flames. we have the residents explaining ho

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many dealing with loss of life as well, including actress jennifer garner had. >> i'm pointing to a street the show "succession." the fiersz res breaking out two after the golden globes. jean smart won for her role in "hacks" and now calling on networks not to televise the shows and give the money. all of the production shutdown pausing on the multibillion dollar industry. >> many people may see the fires as a problem that is just affecting the very wealthy and powerful, but we cannot forget all of the people behind the camera. the drivers, production assistants and makeup artists and hair stylists and craft services and catering. these are the people who are the backbone to making your favorite tv shows and movies from the pandemic to the strikes, this town is taking hit after hit after hit. >> that is just so true. we're already seeing this play out. the oscars have pushed back nominations and the critics choice association said its awards ceremony will be pushed back to january 26th. this is so fluid right now that we don't know what is to come and the grammys are in less than a month.

quick note tomorrow, we'll catch up with another one of the helpers in los angeles, jennifer garner, witness and what she is doing with her devastated community and how we can all help. you were telling us yesterday obviously this is where you're from. jack's preschool burned to the ground. >> yeah. his preschool burned and the kids made tiles they had up. somebody sent us a photo yesterday and they found jack daly transformer little tile. they collected them and trying to get them back to their owners. >> really difficult. >> unthinkable on so many levels. >>> still ahead here on a tuesday morning, some new details on an alarming arrest. what we're now learning about the man now behind bars accused of stalking basketball superstar caitlin clark. >>> first, not your average traffic jam. more rockets than ever before now competing for launch sites. nbc's tom costello is taking a closer look. >> hey, guys, good morning. so we have megarocket launches this week. not enough launch pads around this country. could a rocket launch by coming to a neighborhood by you. we'll look into that and