elementary, palisades charter elementary, marc evers charter elementary, marc evers chartermiddle school. our department of mental health has resources for how to speak with our young people about wildfires. we need to support our children in this time and make sure they are able to talk about this tragedy. our dna helpline is 800 854 77 71. metro fares continue to be suspended for as long as conditions remain the same. we think our chair of the mitro board and our ceo for their assistance. mitro board and our ceo for theirassistance. —— mitro board and our ceo for their assistance. —— we thank. allah says post office has been relocated to rancho park post office. residents can pick up their mail at 11270 exposition boulevard on the first floor. recovery dot la county dog of is launched. he can find initial damage assessments as well as maps to indicate your property location and status, compressive list of county resources by department, federal—state and nonprofit assistance, once again that website is recovery. lacounty. gov. website is recovery.lacounty.gov. we will be s

cnn's natasha chen goes to brentwood as kids from the burned down palisades charter school begin classesa different campus. welcome. >> honestly, this morning is the best i've felt in a week. >> like i'm with my people. i'm with my people. and so yeah, we all just fall into each other's arms and cry. and this is who i belong with. so yes, this is a good day. >> a good day compared to january 7th, when the flames from the palisades fire began. oh my god. as some scrambled to pack what they could from their homes, this close knit community banded together to scoop up their children to escape. >> i brought them with me to brentwood and they are all in the car crying, looking behind, and one of them came to me the other day and said, you know, you pinky swear to me that my house. and my house was burned down and i, i feel so horrible because i know i promised her that her house would be okay, but many of their homes are gone, just like their beloved school, palisades charter elementary, this first graders family is moving into their third airbnb in one week. >> how you're feeling today. what

two students from palisades charter high school join me now.ing to you all, thank you for joining us. what was your reaction when you found out this fire tore through your high school? >> i think it has been a traumatic event from going through covid and now losing our school, it was a learning center and a home. my sister and i are juniors and lilly is a freshman, it is hard to see a place we went to learn, this place was in our daily routine, burned down. staff and everybody on standby. we trusted our community to rebuild our infrastructure and the palisades. we can do it with help of our close family, friends and those that would like to donate. >> carley: do you know the status of your home and what has this week been like for you and your family? >> so far, our home, thank god, is perfectly fine. we've had issues with looting, we have seen time and time again neighborhoods near us going through terrible, terrible fires and i would just like to say i feel so many sentiments for everyone going through so much. we have privilege our house is

march quiz and palisades charter elementary school. revere middle school and topanga elementary school as well as palisades high charter high school. we have reports that palisades high sustained significant damage as a result of the fire. we're quickly accessing resources to address the issues facing this community. i want to very briefly address our workforce. we know today is not going to be a perfect day. a number of schools are shut down. however, localized conditions may make it difficult for our workforce or parents and students to access schools. air quality conditions may vary and in fact may not necessarily be appropriate beyond the area where we closed schools. please use your discretion. we will utilize grace and be flexible regarding attendance and for students and employees alike. specifically students and employees who face chronic respiratory conditions or other health issues, we will be flexible regarding these individuals. we will provide additional updates later on today regarding conditions of schools going into tomo

cnn's natasha chen went to brentwood as kids from the burnt down palisades charter school began classest a new campus. >> honestly, this morning is the best i've felt in a week. like, i'm with my people. i'm with my people. and so yeah, we all just fall in each other's arms and cry. and this is who i belong with. so yes, this is a good day. a good day compared to january 7th, when the flames from the palisades fire began. >> oh my god. as some scrambled to pack what they could from their homes, this close knit community banded together to scoop up their children to escape. >> i brought them with me to brentwood and they are all in the car, crying, looking behind, and one of them came to me the other day and said, you know, you pinky swear to me that my house. >> and my house won't burn down. and i, it feels so horrible because i know i promised her that her house would be okay. >> but many of their homes are gone, just like their beloved school. >> palisades charter elementary. this first graders family is moving into their third airbnb in one week. how you're feeling today. what's your

the palisades charter high school currently serves some 3,000 students throughout the los angeles area the high school suffered significant damage during the palisades fire. although the main campus is still standing. >> barbara streisand brice, funny lady was in 1975. musical comedy starring you got winner. barbra streisand. she plays a broadway star whose fortunes have taken a hit to the great depression. one of the major scenes of the film was shot at the will. rogers state park polo fields and ranch house. will rogers ranch house property dating back to the 1920's was completely destroyed in the palisades fire. >> built on 186 acres overlooking the pacific ocean. it has 31 rooms carouse a stable riding pole field golf course and hiking trails. it was where the famed actor lived and rode horses before his death in 1935. his widow, betty rogers, give the property to the state in 1944. and it became a historic state park. the bunny museum located in altadena and dedicated to all things bunnies was also destroyed. the bunny museum made the guinness book of world records and was feature

palisades charter high school student body president carley spicer joins us now.orning. >> thank you so much. good morning. >> lawrence: i mean, most kids, you know, would be mourning, you know, the fire but not be trying to get back to school. why are you different? >> you know, we started our high school experience during covid so that was online really didn't work well for anyone. students or teachers. so we're really just trying to get our community back together and pally dolphins as we like to say back together in one roof in person sports and learning together again. >> lawrence: charlie, are you guys looking to find a temporary location because i think your school was completely destroyed, right? >> yeah so our school wasn't completely destroyed. the front main building was made out of bring so luck will you that is still standing. we have bungalows in the back made out of wood completely torched to the ground and parts of the field. we are looking for a temporary location. somewhere in l.a. we are reaching out to anyone we can whether that's old office bu

two schools have been destroyed in the fires and this is what is left of the palisades charter high school. 30% of the campus went up in flames. the los angeles unified school district says they are prepared to relocate students. that fire also spread to malibu and jumped at the pacific coast highway. you can see almost an entire row of beachside homes reduced to smoldering rubble. >> it is just nonstop. once one house goes, the next one goes and the next one goes and the next one goes. the wind does not stop blowing. >> that is the big question now about the wind and when it will die down. >> it will die down a little bit through this evening but then it will pick right back up as we head through the day tomorrow. let's take a look at the statistics. 0% containment, but in terms of the acreage that has been earned, the official update from cal fire has not been revised in the past several hours. you know that the next time they update that it will be substantially larger. the fire just continues to grow. let's take a look at the newest view from space. the fires are showing up as hotspots

the palisades charter high school currently serves some 3,000 students throughout the los angeles area the high school suffered significant damage during the palisades fire. although the main campus is still standing. >> barbra streisand as brice funny lady was in 1975. musical comedy starring you got winner. barbra streisand. she plays a broadway star whose fortunes have taken a hit to the great depression. one of the major scenes of the film was shot at the will. rogers state park polo fields and ranch house. will rogers ranch house property dating back to the 1920's was completely destroyed in the palisades fire. >> built on 186 acres overlooking the pacific ocean. it has 31 rooms carouse a stable riding ring pole field golf course and hiking trails. it was where the famed actor lived and rode horses before his death in 1935. his widow, betty rogers, give the property to the state in 1944. and it became a historic state park. the bunny museum located in altadena and dedicated to all things bunnies was also destroyed. the bunny museum made the guinness book of world records and was f

further east, palisades charter high school went up in flames.backdrop for movies like "freaky friday" and "carrie." while in pasadena an evacuation order from the eaton fire was issued for an area around the rose bowl. several tv productions have been halted including "jimmy kimmel" and "grey's anatomy." the l.a. zoo closed because of high winds. tom hanson, cbs news, los angeles. >>> next, capitol visit. president-elect donald trump returns to capitol hill amid new decisions on his legal cases. touch can mean so many things. even for people with moderate-to-severe eczema. touch can make two feel like one. or simply be a helping hand. dupixent can help you stay ahead of eczema as you welcome the feeling of touch. dupixent helps block a key source of inflammation inside the body that can cause eczema to help heal your skin from within. many adults saw 90% clearer skin. some even achieved long-lasting clearer skin and fast itch relief after the first dose. severe allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for face, mouth, tongue or throat s

the two charter elementaries that burned in the palisades had educated children from all over los angeles, not just the immediate neighborhood, but every single member of this community is connected to someone whose homes turn to rubble. i have two teachers who are unable to be here because of their displacement. >> i have substitute teachers in those classrooms. that's hard for kids. so really, just being here for people, making sure everybody is feeling okay. >> the principal of palisades charter elementary says many staff and students lived in homes passed down by their families who cannot afford to move back. the tight knit community doesn't know if they'll ever be geographically close again. but going to school together in a new location is a start. >> i tell my child, these are your people. we're strong and we'll get through this. everything's gone except for this. that's all we have. >> natasha chen, cnn, los angeles. >> of course, we'll be thinking about all those families as they start to try to find some normalcy over the next few weeks and months. there's a new report that says

morning eastern time, 11:00 pacific time from pam mcgee, executive director and principal of palisades charter high school. so it looks like we were not really sure exactly what the damage is, but apparently as of an hour ago, it had not burned to the ground. so that's good news. or at least partially good news. we'll see exactly what the condition is tomorrow, but we're going to cross our fingers. and of course, that's just the high school. that community's obviously devastated and distressed, as is so much of southern california right now, and a little bit of positive news in the middle of all these folks who are devastated right now had to leave their homes not knowing if they're going to have anything to come back to. >> have you been able to talk to any friends who have been able to describe what they've gone through today? >> i have been in touch with some of my friends that basically have said that it's much worse in person than what you see on tv, and that this has been going on since really since about ten, 11:00 this morning. some friends have sent me pictures they've taken from down

teen wolf, carry and freaky friday. >> palisades charter high school is currently engulfed in flames. we know that there are firefighters working heroically who are on the scene now, trying to preserve the main structures, but the baseball field, tennis courts, some bungalows, athletic buildings have been destroyed. >> all right, let's bring in cnn meteorologist derek van dam with the latest. derek, what are we seeing casey, the next few hours are absolutely critical as we anticipate the strongest of the winds during this particularly dangerous situation to unfold. >> and i want to show you just how quickly and how erratic the fire is. this is a palm tree just engulfed in flames in a matter of seconds. look at those embers being blown across the road with winds shaking the vehicle, trying to study that camera shot. just incredible. that shows you what they are contending with on the ground. this is another way to look at it as well. these are the wind gusts that they experienced overnight 71 mile per hour wind gusts in burbank, 55 in santa monica. that's dangerous. and when you think

palisades charter or poly, as the locals call it, destroyed.ed in hit films like the 1976 horror film carrie and the 2003 remake of freaky friday, oscar winning actor forest whitaker and grammy winning rapper will.i.am. notable alums. >> it's a really special place, not only because it was a beautiful campus along the water in the coastal community, and so for that to be wiped out like this is heartbreaking. >> jonathan gelfond graduated from poly in 2022. he and his classmates featured in the documentary social studies, which was shot at the school. >> it's up to us to figure out how we can still be people. >> the seniors this year were the freshmen who lost their freshman year because of covid, so now they're almost going to lose possibly some of the more important milestones that they were looking forward to graduation on the football field, other events at school because of this fire, which is really, really sad. >> gelfand and his family are safe, but others caught in the crosshairs of the inferno. >> we waited as long as we could, but it

school, in addition to palisades high charter high school. we have reports that palisades high sustained significant damage as a result of the fire. we are working with state and federal entities to quickly access resources to address the issues facing this community. i want to very briefly address our work force. we know today is not going to be a perfect day. a number of schools are shut down. however, localized conditions may make it difficult for our work force or parents and students to access schools. air quality conditions may vary. and in fact, may not necessarily be appropriate beyond the area, where we closed schools. please use your discretion. we will utilize grace and be flexible, regarding attendance, and for students and employees alike. specifically, students and employees face chronic respiratory and other health conditions. we will be flexible, regarding these individuals. we will provide additional updates, later on today, regarding conditions of schools going into tomorrow. for the schools that are open, recognizing the wor

canyon elementary school, marquez elementary school, palisades charter elementary school, revere middle school, and topanga elementary school. in addition to palisades high charter high school, we have reports that palisades high sustained significant damage as a result of the fire. we are working with state and federal entities to quickly access resources to address the issues facing this community. i want to very briefly address our workforce. we know today is not going to be a perfect day. a number of schools are shut down, however, localized conditions may make it difficult for our workforce or parents and students to access schools. air quality conditions may vary and in fact may not necessarily be appropriate beyond the area where we closed schools. please use your discretion. we will utilize grace and be flexible regarding attendance and for students and employees alike. specifically students. employees who face chronic respiratory conditions or other health issues, we will be flexible regarding these individuals. we will provide additional updates later on today regarding condit

further east, palisades charter high school went up in flames. and "carrie." while in pasadena, an evacuation warning from the eaton fire was issued for the area around the rose bowl. and several tv productions have been halted. that includes "grey's anatomy." it includes jimmy kimmel. in addition to that, the l.a. zoo is closed today because of those high winds. >> norah: concerned about that air quality. tom hanson, thank you. we will be right back. lity. tom hanson, thank you. we will be right back for cancer, wants to n but a treatment can be. keytruda is known to treat cancer. fda-approved for 17 types of cancer, including certain early-stage cancers. one of those cancers is triple-negative breast cancer. keytruda may be used with chemotherapy medicines as treatment before surgery and then continued alone after surgery when you have early-stage breast cancer and are at high risk of it coming back. keytruda can cause your immune system to attack healthy parts of your body during or after treatment. this may be severe and lead to death. see yo

movie theater and pharmacy and a couple of grocery stores, and many schools, elementary schools, palisades charter elementary. where i went to preschool, palisades high school, a lot of this is either engulfed in flames or on the verge of it tonight. it is a very sad situation. we throw around unprecedented often, but i have never in my life seen a storm like this in los angeles. it has been so dry here over the course of this buyers season after having a couple of rainy years. there is a lot of vegetation out there and when the santa ana winds come blowing after the the coast of the pacific ocean, it's something a lot of us are used to. the idea that it would be the tinderbox it is tonight, i've seen a lot of fires, and i've seen them in rural areas and seen houses burned down in southern california but never were thousands of people, tens of thousands were forced to evacuate at one particular time in the heart of the city of los angeles. that is what pacific palisades is. it's a city of different communities and the palisades was one of the big ones. >> the worst of the wind storm has not even b

the palisades charter high school, used for "carrie" and "freaky friday" engulfed in flames and suffering significant damage. fortunately, no students were harmed as they are currently on winter break. for anybody who was in session, we know they have canceled chas and is those students have stayed home. >> john: right. but again, when you take a look at those aerial views that he have we have, it's incredible to see entire neighborhoods, not just a street or a block, but entire neighborhoods have been wiped out. this, i believe, is the palisades which will be kind of southeast of sunset and then there's the part of palisades that goes on up into the hills there and just you see the swimming pools there in the backyards. cars in the street. and you see chimneys but nothing else left of the house. >> sandra: according to the update we got from officials, in the last ninety minutes or so, they are still in search and rescue mode because they have to assume there were some people who decided to ride this out and not heed the evacuation warnings. so you heard it from the fire chief and other

. >> carley: this is palisades charter high school, a popular location for hollywood productions. >> todd: this hair salon ripped apart in the last 24 hours. you are watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. karen bass will hold a press conference 11:00 a.m. eastern t time. >> gone. el patron, gone. everything in this neighborhood is not existing right now. we've been here since 8:00 a.m. fighting ourselves, no one is safe. >> todd: robert ray is live in pacific palisades with the latest. robert. >> good morning to you from a dangerous smoke-filled neighborhood in pacific palisades and home behind me unfortunately in flames. an inferno, most of it burned. the outside walls still standing, they will fall eventually. pacific coast highway, a few blocks down the hills and malibu to the north and so much of malibu is gone. those beautiful homes and the heir looms and histories of family and friends have all had are gone. this fire has burned 17,000 acres enjoying over 1000 structures and that number could go up. five fatalities, as we know. five fir

schools will be open today except canyon charter elementary, kenter canyon charter elementary, palisades charter elementary, marquez charter elementary, topanga charter elementary, lanai road elementary, and paul revere middle school. >> our department of mental health has resources for how to speak with our young people about wildfires at de dot la county.gov. >> we need to support our children in this time and make sure they're able to talk about this tragedy. >> our dm health helpline is (800) 854-7771. >> metro fares continue to be suspended for as long as conditions remain the same. we thank our chair of the metro board, janice hahn, and our ceo, stephanie wiggins, for their assistance. >> palisades post office has been relocated to rancho park post office. residents can pick up their mail at 11270 exposition boulevard on the first floor. >> recovery dot l.a. county.gov. >> had residents that have been affected by these fires can go and search for assistance, including, for example, mail, which is something you don't really think about on a regular basis. but but people who have lost their

. >> carley: this is palisades charter high school, a popular location for hollywood productions. >>on ripped apart in the

homes catch fire and burned to the ground and we send this door will rogers beach towards the palisades charter high school in the distance and's out in the distance and i know a lot of people have been keeping their eyes on the high school wondering how it's doing we can't report anything from this vantage point i could tell you we seen homes and structures in the palisades area as well as the pch we saw the fire jump the pch so the fire can move in any direction the wind is not calming down and unfortunately it's a devastating fire that will likely have historic devastation attached to it. >> trace: mill get back usually more information at some point that when he talked about there is you look at the flames a lot of people are asking wired the flames so big? it's january wire flames in california what's feeding the fires the problem happens to be the weather is dry here. california is in the wake of some wet winters and in those we had a ton of rain and it brought big time brush. and conditions had been very dry. all of the high brush has dried out and is feeling the fires which is why condi

movie authority and many schools, palisades high school is there, marquez elementary school, palisades charter, a number of other schools, palisades park, much of pacific palisades tonight is up in flames. thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate from this area. i just want to say if you're watching because there are still people here in this neighborhood, looky-loos on the side of your road. if you are considering staying in your home, it is the wrong decision. get out now. we have never seen anything like this before, lawrence, certainly not in my lifetime and i evacuated from my childhood home during fires, nothing like this. the winds have been whipping in a way few of us i think can recall. it has been drier than normal here in southern california. there's barely been any rain this rain season. so it is a tinderbox out here. lapd is on a city-wide tactical alert, meaning all officers available in the department under 10,000, but around that number, have been called to duty tonight. it is a mutual aid situation with the los angeles city fire department, los angeles county fire dep

so we have a lot of kids -- 3,000 kids at palisades charter high school who look like they're back toe learning for quite some time. just another trauma on top of all of the other trauma. kayleigh. >> kayleigh: such devastation, and you said she moved there in 1967. and that's almost six decades in that area. just devastating. jonathan, keep us updated. >> sure. >> kayleigh: jason, i want to play a sound bite, and gavin newsom is on the ground and trying to manage this with local leaders and he keeps going back to a word that many democrats use in times of crisis. watch this. >> the other thing is, look, you know, i think you will get a bad rap, and i know you're getting a bad rap about the fire hydrants don't have enough water in them. give me a break. give me a break. >> kayleigh: we intended to play on the sound bite. if you play on, you hear gavin newsom who says over and over again that he's combatting misinformation. he said that to president biden. president biden in the wake of hurricane helene -- i watched the press conference, said misinformation, and misinformation, and sus

so, it is a almost total loss in that they're not going to be going to palisades charter elementary anyand, you know, the plan forward is we are trying to stay up there we are trying to stay in the community. they both have somehow rallied together, both schools have found new locations to start school again, which is fen nonal. and that's our plan. that's the plan but we're a little far away where we are located right now. we are staying down in saint clementi which is an hour and 15 without traffic. two and a half or more with traffic. >> ainsley: wow. >> we're trying to figure that out. >> ainsley: i know in some of the pictures the kid would paint these tiles when they graduated from the preschool and a pile of them were found on the ground after the wreckage. i know when you went back home you said somehow even though you lost your house, somehow your yard was not burned. the butterfly garden was not burned. how are your children handling this? >> oh, so i have four daughters. 3, 6, 8, and 10. handling it so differently. my oldest is anxious, nervous to go back to los angeles. does

he'll look across here there was the palisades charter high school in front of us and then up in the o go camera right now that is that is the palisades highlands. that is where this all started. a lot of the people we spoke to today said we have seen brushfires up and those who. >> neil: many times. we never really worried about them because what are the chances of them coming down here? they never crossed sunset boulevard they would never be allowed to get into palisades proper. while those flames did get in here and this is the destruction that has been rocked as a result. as you mentioned a lot of those same people have a lot of questions of how the flames were allowed to get here. they want to know about the fire hydrants they want to know whether enough resources were dedicated to this firefight knowing the window that was coming. the wind is an important part of this as you know fixed wing and aircraft and helicopters their water dropping capabilities are an important part of that initial firefight they cannot get in the air a lot of the time because the wind was so high. but s

this is the palisades charter high school. that's what it looks like before.y, it wasn't in session which is a blessing as we look back on this, because it ends up like this. here's bank of america building in the pacific palisades before, after. and then you can take a look really quickly here at an i auto shop in altadena. we don't want to just focus on palisades. obviously, take a look back, here's altadena. here it is now. and then a starbucks, there's a couple of these images showed up in these historic buildings completely burned out there as well not just pasadena, again, we want the to focus on all of these fires, the eaton fire, the kenneth firing so many fires in southern california. rachel: you talk about rebuilding this, by the way, if you've with ever been on the pch, it's the most beautiful stretch to of highway in the country, it's just breath take. and those homes, as you pointed out, are right on the water. think about rebuilding in los angeles. the number of regulations -- will: oh. rachel: -- and permits that are required, the lab are hillar

can you see how much destruction there is and then we've talked a lot had this week about palisades charterh school. that is the high school -- you can see parts of it. 30% of that has been destroyed. 3,000 children attend that school. all of them and their parents are still waiting for word as to whether they will be allowed back from their winter break which is to conclude on monday. we don't know yet. we're still waiting for that word. and then, brian, i don't know if you can get this far, if you have enough capable. but i want to show you down here, there's a lot of talk always about the palisades being home to a lot of wealthy movie stars and producers. well, these -- there's a lot of ordinary middle class americans who live here too. these are all small homes and apartments. you can see as we tilt up slightly, a white picket fence there. those are small homes. a lot of people, i can tell you, knowing this personally, a lot of people move into this neighborhood. they take a smaller home, a smaller apartment just because they want their kids to go to pali high which is a very good schoo

palisades charter high school also a popular spot for hollywood productions was engulfed in flames. now destroyed. palisades resident who owns tutoring business described the pain and anxiety. >> i'm worried about all of them. you know, i keep getting texts from parents. there's a lot of kids who don't have homes. you know, the lucky ones live a little outside of town. but all of my students have lost their schools. so it's... it's incomprehensible. >> harris: you know, i want to say a little something because i know people have talked about all of the rich and privileged people in malibu. palisades, pacific palisades. i know it well. that is a place that has a conglomerate of people, of every ilk. and many of those communities hit today and yesterday and the day before -- eaton, those areas, they're everyday americans. and you know everyday americans can have dreams come true and build million dollar houses along the beach. loss is loss. but for those people -- many of them didn't have insurance because of the fire seasons that they have lived through and had fires previously that i

for instance, palisades charter high school. it suffered significant damage.c school has been a popular location for hollywood productions including the 1976 horror classic carrie and the 2003 remake of freaky friday. that's a classic starring lindsay lohan and jamie lee cur us. another one, will rogers' ranch house. destroyed, gone. the 31-room home was owned by the popular actor until his death in 1935. it was donated to california's department of parks and recreation which then turned the grounds into a state park. it is gone. also destroyed, the to pang georgia ranch hotel featured in numerous tv shows and films over the years, in longer there. and the flames also destroying the real inn malibu. it's an iconic seafood restaurant that that had been a popular hang ott for celebrities like jerry seinfeld, cindy crawford, to name just a few. it's been there for the past 36 years. that restaurant, gone. and there's many more i could list, stu. stuart: thanks very much, ashley. we're keeping an eye on that fire in pacific palisades. it popped up. a moment ago i

what is the scene there as day breaks on another day. >> talking about palisades charter high. one of the parents of a daughter who goes there. we're waiting the find out today whether they'll be back in school where they were due from their winter break on monday. talking to the suffering of children, we're outside here, the methodist church and pre-school. it is burned to the ground, just the tower really. you can make out there, the remnants of it. this over to brian's right is where the actual pre-school was. the pre-school kids were evacuated from. there is a tradition here, john. every year when those kids graduate from this pre-school they paint a tile and put it on the walls outside. this stretches right around the school all the way and this is the 22-23 graduation class and these have all come down and fallen onto the ground here. yesterday as we were here last night, parents were coming, parents of kids who had graduated from here were coming to try to sift through these, find their child's particular tile and take it home as a souvenir as a school they loved. they h

places -- my daughter goes to, one of my daughters goes to palisades charter high school which is rightnow yet, they're due back from winter break on monday. we still haven't been told whether they can physically go back to that school. it seems hard to imagine, you would think. so the 3,000 students who go there and all of their families, we might be back to remote learning for our kids for a while. with schools gone, that's just one school. there's elementary schools completely destroyed as well. so there is very little here. it's going to be months and months and if months before this is a functioning community again. the tragedy of this, cheryl, really is -- i've tried to put it into words but, frankly, it's really hard, cheryl. cheryl: jonathan, i've been watching your reporting e over the last three days, and it is heartbreaking and devastating, and i know that that is home to you as well as the place that you work. jonathan hunt, thank you. thank you for that live report. >>> well, please join fox in support of families impacted by the california wildfires. your donation enables

my daughter attends palisades charter high school which is just about a mile down the road here.heard in the press conference that that school has suffered significant damage. that's 3,000 students who go there. and if it's significantly damaged, they may be back to remote learning again. we'll find out in the next few days. but so many schools have been displaced here. they are moving as many students as they can to other schools. but it's going to be a long slog. and you just imagine again the terror that so many families went through. first of all, just trying to get out of a place like this. grab what you can. run for your lives, literally. get where you can. and there are so few roads in and out of this neighborhood. it was really absolutely chaotic and nothing short of terrifying for everybody trying to get out of here last night. we saw so many residents just standing once they did reach safety. falling into the arms of firefighters. desperate and relieved to be out. and absolutely terrified. but -- and looking back at their homes, one was talking to my wife who is a repor

went up in that fire, we have got an interview they did on "fox & friends first" earlier with palisades charter high school. three kids, keep in mind. we know they will try as soon as they possibly can to start doing virtual classes. but here's the thing. if those kids lost their houses, where are they going to be? are they even still going to be in that town? are they going it move? what is their future look like? here's what they told carley and todd earlier. >> it's very hard to see not only a place that we went to learn but a place in our daily routine you know, got burned down. our staff and everyone on standby but we trust in our community to rebuild our infrastructure and policies. we know we can do it with the help, you know, of our close family friends and all of those that would like to donate. so our home, thank god, is perfectly fine. but we have had some issues with looting. we have seen time and time again, neighborhoods near us going through terrible, terrible fires. >> it's really not just a school and a place that we learn but it's a community and we need a lot of hope and supp

stuart: all right, i think you went to palisades charter high school.nd gavin newsom, how they handled the fires? >> not a fan -- stuart: that that's mild. [laughter] >> yeah. i kid go to pali high school, and the good news is despite early reports that it burned to the ground, there are some bungalows that burned but 90% of the campus is is intact. it looks like the students are going to go right back tomorrow, which i'm sure they won't, but reports of it -- >> it's a charter school. i hope you can salvage something out of pali high. >> great memories. stuart: help californians affected by the fires by donating to the red cross at go.fox/redcross or by scanning the qr code on your screen. >>> more ceos are going to attempt -- attend trump's inauguration. who's on the list now? lauren: reportedly, sundar pichai of google and the ceo of tiktok. his app is tiahrting on the brink of -- teetering on -- stuart: what does that tell you? lauren: of course, elon musk, jeff bezos, mark zuckerberg at the dais because they're important. because they support the ne

that is palisades charter high school. firefighters fought a valiant battle to save the majority. was destroyed what they saved around 70% of that school still waiting to hear i'm one of the parents waiting to hear what the mic it will be going back to that school when they resume after what was supposed to be winter break next monday. and does he look down at the candy and here the devastation is quite extraordinary. i will let brian show you all of this. you talk about all the multimillion dollar homes in the palisades i could tell you this and i know this very well from personal experience. these are small homes. a lot of them are apartments and very small homes. and a lot of people they move here they sacrificed to have a small apartment or a very small home because they want their kids to have the chance to go to pali charter high school which is a very good school by l.a. standards. so these are not millionaires we are talking about these people who work hard, these are ordinary -- ordinary americans, trace, and they like so many people in the pacific palisades of lost every

elementary school, revere middle school, and topanga elementary school, in dition to palisades high charterg with state, and federal entities to quickly access resources to address the issues facing this community. i want to briefly address our workforce. we know today will not be a perfect day. a number of schools are shut down. however, localized conditions may make it difficult for our workforce or parents and students to access schools. air quality conditions may very and in fact, may not necessarily be appropriate beyond the area where we closed schools. please use your discretion. we will utilize grace and a flexible regarding attendance and for students and employees alike. specifically, students and employees who face chronic respiratory conditions or other health issues. we will be flexible regarding these individuals. we will provide additional updates later today regarding conditions of schools going into tomorrow. for the schools that are open, recognizing the workforce needs and the parents of our children, beyond activities, care for children in those schools will continue to

in addition to palisades high charter high school, we have reports that palisades high sustained significantage as a result of the fire. we are working with state and federal entities to quickly access resources to address the issues facing this community. i want to very briefly address our workforce. we know today is not going to be a perfect day. a number of schools are shut down, however, localized conditions may make it difficult for our workforce or parents and students to access schools. air quality conditions may vary and in fact may not necessarily be appropriate beyond the area where we closed schools. please use your discretion. we will utilize grace and be flexible regarding attendance and for students and employees alike, specifically students. employees who face chronic respiratory conditions or other health issues. we will be flexible regarding these individuals. we will provide additional updates later on today regarding conditions of schools going into tomorrow for the schools that are open, recognizing the workforce needs of the parents of our children. beyond the bell activ

and again, this is the palisades charter high school. this looks to be the swimming area. seems to be fine, but right up the road i don't know if you can see that we walk right up here. fire trucks are zooming all over because the hills every side of temescal is on fire. we had to get out of the almario avenue area because i think i have some video of that, or we're trying to turn it around, but almario avenue is also now burning on both sides as embers were being pushed across the road. >> now, as you see, that. you see that gust. back there wow. oh, there we go. >> i mean, you can see just how insanely destructive and difficult it is to deal with these particular weather conditions. and there were some terrifying moments for our cnn crews. both nick watt and natasha chen had to race to safety. we will show you more on that soon. but first, meteorologist derek van dam standing by and our stephanie elam is live for us in the pacific palisades at the moment. we're going to start with you, stephanie. i see that throughout the morning. you've been dealing with this. the fires

but pali high, palisades charter high school is currently engulfed in flames. we know that there are firefighters working heroically who are on the scene now to preserve the main structures. but the baseball field, tennis courts, some bungalows, athletic buildings have been destroyed. but again, we are we know that the fire department is there now trying to preserve the structures. palisades elementary school, not too far away, also on fire. and we have a few other schools. marquez elementary, paul revere nearby. we're grateful that the vicinity. and so what we're hearing is both from firefighters and county and city emergency officials on the ground, and then reporters and also neighbors. but we're grateful and encouraging folks who have not evacuated to evacuate. schools are closed tomorrow, but we're just devastated. this is a school that i've represented for nearly eight years. i also grew up playing soccer on those fields, and we're all just in shock. but our priority right now is preserving, preserving life of people and pets and also evacuating and then

this was palisades charter elementary, serving more than 400 students, and it's one of several schools in the neighborhood that's now burned to the ground. now, parents like myself, of course, are wondering what happens to their kids and their schooling in the meantime. and then there are the hundreds, potentially thousands of businesses that were totally wiped out. altadena hardware was part of the local community for more than 80 years. people who work there will now have to figure out what exactly is supposed to come next. it's the same story for other mom and pop stores, other restaurants like tai in malibu. that was a fixture there for 25 years. now the family owned restaurant is a heap of rubble. now, can you imagine all the employees at that business and all of those businesses that were destroyed? many of them don't know where their next paycheck is going to come from. the fires have even left many without their normal place of worship. here, for example, is altadena community church before the eaton fire fire ripped through. this is it. after a nearby sister church opening its

in addition to palisades high charter high school, we have reports that palisades high sustained significanth state and federal entities to quickly access resources to address the issues facing this community. i want to very briefly address our workforce. we know today is not going to be a perfect day. a number of schools are shut down, however, localized conditions may make it difficult for our workforce or parents and students to access schools. air quality conditions may vary and in fact may not necessarily be appropriate beyond the area where we closed schools. please use your discretion. we will utilize grace and be flexible regarding attendance and for students and employees alike, specifically students and employees who face chronic respiratory conditions or other health issues. we will be flexible regarding these individuals. we will provide additional updates later on today regarding conditions of schools going into tomorrow. for the schools that are open, recognizing the workforce needs of the parents of our children. beyond the bell activities. care for children in those schools w

we're talking about marquez elementary and palisades elementary, and then a high school, palisades charterhigh school, uh, you know, providing educational services to over 2000 students sustained serious damage. in fact, when i visited, there was an ongoing fire consuming about 30% of the school. it is it is burning bungalows and portable classrooms, as well as athletic facilities. the old legacy building was still pretty intact, but we lost two schools valued at millions of dollars and about 30% of palisades high is being threatened as we speak. that's why we are working with sacramento, our state leaders, our federal entities, utilizing our channels to fema to achieve the necessary reimbursements for the reconstruction of these sites. >> our hearts go out to all those kids and their parents. alberto carvalho, thanks so much for joining us, and thanks for all the important work you're doing. and we'll be right back. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> it's one of the most remarkable stories in sports history. i don't want to be remembered as just a basketball play

while the two elementary schools will be shifted to nearby campuses for the high school, 3,000, palisades chartern currently on day six of evacuation. >> reporter: a hard reality of these students who have been bouncing from one hotel to friend's house after the next. starting next week, it is back to covid-era remote class. >> we have always looked forward to being able to go to high school together and driving me to school every day. seeing that that's gone and our school is gone is to so devastating. >> these girls starting a campaign to rebuild the parts of their campus that burned. >> we didn't want to watch this happen. we wanted to find a way to bring our community together. >> and our driving force that started our gofundme is that we are so much stronger together. >> reporter: these are kids that went through covid, that were disrupted then and disrupted now again. >> so they have experience more as young kids than many adults have over their entire lifetime. >> reporter: now teachers stepping up to support their students while dealing with their own losses. how are your students doing?

escolar, alberto carvalho, le dio la bienvenida a los estudiantes de la escuela p primaria charter de palisadeson reubicados temporalmente a la primaria magnet de ciencias de brentwood. m'-- m'usica y el servicio meteorologico nacional. alerta de condiciones del tiempo peligrosas para partes del noreste del pais. mientras las nevadas se trasladan hacia la region en partes de maryland. se le advierte a los conductores transitar con cuidado, ya que las temperaturas cayeron a los 20 grados y las vias estan r resbaladizas. tambien filadelfia vive la caida de mucha nieve y se exhorto a la poblacion a prepararse para la llegada de una ola de frio. a inicios de la proxima semana. y vean nada mas estas impactantes imagenes que nos llegan desde washington d.c. vean como una camioneta choca contra otro carro mientras trataba de pasarlo. luego hace un giro brusco a la izquierda y embiste el muro del puente arlington memorial para terminar en las gelidas aguas del rio potomac. los bomberos lograron rescatar del agua a dos personas que se encuentran en el hospital en estado critico. el alcalde de la ciudad

. >> ethan tire's daughter and son had attended marquez charter elementary school in pacific palisadestain there, which was once under a mural. the 300 kids from marquez are now welcome at norris dairy. >> it's a happy day. it's a really exciting day. seeing the marquez children, seeing their teachers. i think that just brought them back together. >> we're more than glad to welcome them. >> we're excited to help them out. so we feel bad that they lost their school and everything, and they've been going through a really hard time. >> but there is concern from some in the norris dairy community, including teachers, over current students having to move for the palisades students. the principal addressed that. >> it's very important to me, as the principal at norris dairy, that my community not feel slighted in any way. >> tell me what the situation set the record straight. >> every one of our students is in a classroom. >> memories of the fire are fresh in the minds of many of these students. >> i was a bit scared at first. the winds were really like picking up. >> but there is a belief t