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a short while ago, i spoke to someone who has had to evacuate from their home, maryam zar.palisades and previously served as vice—chair of the pacific palisades community council. she joins us now from redondo beach, california, which is about 25 miles south of the pacific palisades. it is unbelievable. so today is the first full day where people are waking up to the reality, my phone and i assume the telephones of many people have been a light, with sharing information, gathering what they can, sharing with the network and it goes from there. there is no good news, some people have been able to drive into the whether it's remains standing, whether it's in our commercial district which we called the village, the palisades village which is an adorable little sweet little old town. that's historic and sweet at the same time, it's sweet at the same time, its modern and historic at the same time, there is almost nothing there. people's homes have been down, people have been sharing pictures, snapshots with nothing but the skeleton standing. there are famous trees, not so famous

. >> maryam zar.ermes restaurant has been destroyed, but she's been helping feed others affected by the fires. and she tells us what she saw and felt as she realized just how much was destroyed i'm on a neighborhood chat, and they needed food. >> some of my neighbors have stayed to put out the fires. i live on the fire line. my house is still standing, but the other side of the road is not, and the fire trucks have been moved to mandeville. so our neighbors are putting out fires and hot spots and they were hungry. so i came up to bring them food while i was able to get to my house. today, i had a police escort take me there. i stood in the queue and was able to get in, and then my car actually had to leave on the side of the mountain and and run down. was it tuesday? and the officer kindly drove me to my car to get there. i had to go through the palisades. >> it's not good. it's really bad. it's really bad. it's hard to grasp the reality of it. it's, um. it's out of a horror movie, but i just saw. i m