joining us now is the mayor of paradise, steve crowder. mayor crowder, thanks for making some time for us. you're a very valuable resource in this time. let me just start by asking, how difficult is this for you to see what's unfolding down in southern california? this was probably the most difficult one i faced since the camp fire, and i've been through a lot of them. we had our daughter lost, lost her home in altadena as well. so it's really kind of a personal one for us. as soon as they get probably a little more settled, we're we're happy to help more. and yes, i am personally planning on making a trip down there and visiting to offer our condolences and any help that we might be able to offer. you can, you can you can run a master's class on this. what guidance, mister mayor, can you give when it comes to coping and rebuilding of a town? well, i think, you know, no matter what anybody tells you or what you see as you walk through the town, after it's cleared, it's going to look like a nuclear bomb went off. but i can tell you firsthan

especially the paradise one. when president trump came to paradise and visited to see the devastation. so at the time, president trump asked him and others, what are you doing to clear the land in such a way that makes it less fire-prone, you know, to rake the forest floor, and people made fun of that word, rake, which is a technical term for some of the equipment used in forestry. to make sure areas can be a little more fire-safe, by thinning trees, removing brush, removing dead material on that. so the question is, as governor newsom goes out onsite and waves his arms and tells us it's someone else's fault, what has he learned in the last six years and what has he applied since he had this photo op in paradise as the new governor of california? it looks like not much. not much action. certain promises were made to be aggressive on land management in california. yet -- certain claims were made, but the actual numbers are 1/5 of the amount that had been treated, the work that had been done in california. so we've

so, is this really a feminist paradise?hort period of time, something that is much harder to eradicate in any society, really, is gender violence. i want to find out just how much of a problem there is here. a quarter of icelandic women have experienced rape or attempted rape, and around 40% have been subjected to physical or sexual violence. i've come to a small port town just outside reykjavik to meet hulda. doorbell rings hi. hi, hulda. as a child, she was abused by her grandfather, but for years she was too scared to speak out. in 2017, she founded 0fgar, a feminist organisation. when you talk about or hear about iceland, everybody says, like, "this is the safest country in the world, "we are the happiest, women are the safest." we have been marketed as this feminist paradise, and which we are not. of course, we have less gun violence. we have less gang violence. but at home, we are not any more safe than women anywhere else and in europe. why's...why do you think it's such a big issue here? violence thrives in silence,

take the survivors of the 2018 camp fire in paradise, where they have been missing out because of the tax law. john ramos explains. >> reporter: for years, the federal government has taxed wildfire settlements as though they were some kind of financial gain, when they are meant to cover people's losses. if there is a place that knows something about loss, it is here in paradise, california. >> reporter: kim was starting work, when she saw smoke in the distance, as the campfire burned into paradise. >> we left by 8:45, and we were told by our neighbor that by 9:00, our house was burnt. >> reporter: like everyone else, kim faces a trip out of town turning morning sun into the darkest of nights. the her home and virtually everything she owned was in ashes. that's when the uncertainty set in. >> and i knew i could get us that house built, but i didn't know if i could get us chairs. a couch or anything else because i didn't know if we would have enough money. >> reporter: because they were found liable for the fire, a $10 billion trust fund was established to help the victims rebuild. >> a

the mayor of paradise, empathizing with people in l.a. and offering his wisdom as people look to cope and rebuild. >> outside our doors this evening, mostly clear and cooling off. going to be a chilly start for most tomorrow with a frost advisory for some. i'll have a look at what you can currently on the front lines of the eaton fire. they are just one of the several bay area strike teams in the area trying to help contain these flames. for some oakland firefighters, the mission is also striking a nerve. after the oakland city council voted to temporarily shutter a handful of fire stations to make up for a budget deficit. >> we've had a lot of conversations about this happening in our city, in our community, because when we interact with the residents, a lot of them have expressed some frustration on the water supply issues and a couple of things that may not have worked out well timing wise. and when we talk to our crews, it's in the back of our mind. >> oakland fire has sent four additional engines, as well as a search and rescue team,

offer some of the lessons that you've learned in paradise.usly to offer a message, a broad sort of message of hope about what it takes to rebuild and recover. what are you telling the people in that community about what the path forward looks like? >> well, the first thing i told them is, you know, when you get the opportunity to walk through your town, you're going to look and it's going to look like a nuclear bomb went off and you're going to go, oh my god, there's no way we can recover from that. because that was the first thought i had. and the more i went up, the more i saw. i started looking at things going. well, i think, i think we can do this. and the longer it went, it was, i know we can do this. six years later, we're well on the way to recovery. we've still got a long ways to go. one thing that that i told him is don't let anybody tell you you can't do this because they're wrong. you can do this and you will do this. and we're we're kind of the proof of that. >> mayor, on that note, as you said, you continue to rebuild. the popula

i've been in a lot of these fires, a lot going back to paradise. and this approximates paradise. it's not a numeric. it's just a feeling, a sense of loss, place, belonging. >> still no containment? no. >> we're at zero containment. the winds have been a little bit more favorable. as you've seen in the last few hours. so we've got the helicopters back up. we've got some fixed wing aircraft, um, out on the coast. it's a little different. it's pretty intense. we have 23 aerial assets just at the palisades, but a lot of them are not operational because of those winds. so it's a combination of challenges. that said, we've depleted all our resources in northern california. we'd already pre-positioned on sunday hundreds of personnel, special units, water tenders, dozers, engines, helicopters. and it wasn't enough. and now we're getting the mutual aid system, the emac system, governors from all across the country are calling oregon, sending a few dozen engines. and arizona, utah. we're just grateful for all the support a lot of these firefighters i was talking to on the street, they've b

i've been to a lot of these fires, a lot going back to paradise. and this approximates paradise. it's not a numeric. it's just a feeling, a sense of loss. place, belonging. >> still no containment? >> no. we're at zero containment. the winds have been a little bit more favorable. as you've seen in the last few hours. so we've got the helicopters back up. we've got some fixed wing aircraft. um, out on the coast. it's a little different. it's pretty intense. we have 23 aerial assets. uh, just at the palisades. but a lot of them are not operational because of those winds. so it's a combination of challenges. that said, we've depleted all our resources in northern california. we've already pre-positioned on sunday, hundreds of personnel, special units, water tenders, dozers, engines, helicopters. and it wasn't enough. and now we're getting the mutual aid system, the emac system, governors from all across the country are calling. oregon, sending, uh, a few dozen engines and arizona, utah. we're just grateful for all the support. >> a lot of these firefighters that i was talking to on

as the campfire barreled into paradise. >> we left by 8:45. we were told by 9:00, our house was burned. >> reporter: like everyone else, kim faced a harrowing trip out of town. the flames turning the morning sun into the darkst of nights. her family survivorred but her home and virtually everything she owned was in ashes. that's when the uncertainty set in. >> i knew i could get us a house built. and i knew i could get us beds but i didn't know if i could get us chairs, couch, silver wear. i didn't know if i would have enough money. >> reporter: most of the town was wiped out and because pg&e was found liable for the fire, a $10 billion trust fund was established to help the victims rebuild. >> then we found out we had to pay the taxes on it. that was really painful because it felt like now somebody took something else away from us. that's all we had left. >> reporter: in any settlement, a significant portion of the award is paid to the attorneys handling the case. but in 2018, the same year as the campfire, the trump administration removed at

they're also a paradise for cows. among these green hills and cows is the family dairy farm where jill basch and her two sisters, lynn and diana, grew up. jill: not interested in the cows. joe: it took some intervening years of life and adventures before the sisters finally took a shine to those cows, and especially the milk they produce. jill: that drew us all back to the farm in the late '90s to really kind of fulfill our father's dream of making cheese. joe: that dream led the family to launch point reyes farmstead cheese company in 2000, starting with the blue cheese, they'd peddle at bay area farmers' markets. jill: we all worked the farmers' markets, you know, sometimes with babies in tow. joe: twenty-five years of kurds and whey later, the company has a second location in petuma, a hundred employees, and a whole wide wheel of different cheeses. kuba hemmerling: we bring 6000 gallons of milk, 4 days a week, to this plant, which gives us about 6500 tons of cheese per day. joe: the plant is busy, turning out blue

in the middle of paradise. and it was here that they returned in 2016 for the last time. it was september, prime season for hunting. the rudolphs got a hunting permit, which is only legal in certain sections of kafue national park. the rest of the park is set aside for wildlife conservation. they hoped to bring home a leopard. but on this safari, only bianca would be hunting. larry was there to assist and observe. over the course of nearly two weeks, bianca and larry scoured the massive park in search of that elusive leopard. spencer kakoma is an experienced game scout who accompanied the rudolphs. he knows the park well, along with many of its best hunting spots. how experienced was bianca? with one shot? yes. were you impressed? i was very impressed. she was a good hunter. she was a good shot. she could handle a gun as well, if not better than most of the men i know. andrea canning (voiceover): larry was also an experienced hunter and brought both a rifle and a shotgun on the trip. but on this safari, he was

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if you want to live in paradise that you're going to live with fire. things are changing.have to think differently about how we build, about how we prepare, about how we respond to these multiple disasters at the same time. >> nobody's here by accident anymore. people who live here are here because they're fighting to be here. they want to be here. and there's this real sense of community that i think is much stronger now than it was before the fire. and i think that that's really hopeful. >> hope is critical, but so is fire insurance, which is essential if you live virtually anywhere in california. but the industry itself is imploding. >> i think our premium on our house prior to the fire was, i think it was around $500 a year, and we were on 11 acres with multiple buildings, so about $500 a year purchasing this about a year ago. and then we've now had an increase in our policy. >> so how much do they want between 20 and 30,000 a year additional for less coverage. we're living through sort of real time forced adaptation, changing building codes, changing property values,

but certainly, as we well know out here, like places in in paradise, it is going to take a lot of time, but it just breaks your heart, especially in some of these places, because like you said, it's personal and i've been getting texts from people saying i'm okay, but we just don't know what's next. >> yeah, it is so devastating. greg lee, thank you for that report. president biden met with senior white house officials for a briefing on the federal response to the wildfires. he claimed the federal government would pay for 100% of the firefighting needs for the next 180 days, and pledged the full weight of the federal government to help contain the fires and continue the road to recovery. >> and we've secured additional firefighters and firefighting aircraft from our ally and canada as well. i also want everyone in southern california to know we're going to keep at it. we're sticking with this. we expect there may be a temporary break in the winds, but in some areas, the winds are likely to continue well into next week. >> today's briefing comes a day after the president was in californ

now compare that to paradise with 85 dead. the fact is, the current situation in los angeles is not even in the top 20 most deadly fires in the state of california. that would require one more person to be tied for last place, which would be a terrible thing to be tied for any place there. but that is the actual situation here. so the coroner is here. they are removing whatever they are seeing there. clearly there are remains. their crime lab people are there. and the homicide detective who is here may talk to us afterwards, but only after the coroner has left the scene. that is the situation here in malibu and again over in altadena, where the coroners are now going around trying to recover the bodies or the remains of the people who have died in this fire. but again, with only five, that is truly a remarkable result. >> take a step back from from that scene where you are right now. you've been in los angeles county for about a day. you know, we heard the alarms going off. the air quality is terrible. roads are blocked. i mea

how paradise is rising from the ashes. a what's as tens of thousands of people are under evacuation orders and warnings as wildfires rage in los angeles county. another one just started this morning. three large fires are burning near pasadena, pacific palisades and sylmar. we have seen a number of homes damaged or destroyed by flames. thousands more are threatened. long lines of people evacuating their neighborhoods. clearly, strong winds are driving these fires, pushing embers a mile away or more from the original source. this has been a very, very difficult firefight and it is far from over. >> this morning, governor gavin newsom announced he had canceled a trip to washington, d.c. to focus on the fires. the federal government also announced it would be sending federal funds to the state to fight wildfires. >> many structures already destroyed, and the fact that people were still not evacuated still did not heed the warning. we're just coming down the canyon is a reminder of how serious this moment is. >> the governor a

. >> my family lost three homes in the in the paradise fire. and so it's there aren't words in the south bay. >> lauren martinez, abc seven news. >> our thoughts, of course, are with all the families affected by these devastating wildfires. and our thanks to all the fire crews who are working tirelessly day in and day out. we are staying on top of all the developments coming out of the wildfires in los angeles county, and you can get those updates in real time over on our website or via our app. all right. back here at home. let's get you outside. lisa, how's it looking? >> well, our fire danger is increasing locally as dry offshore winds will be gusting gusting gusting gusting gusting throughout 48 degrees and the ws are over 30 miles an hour. so the camera is shaking a bit. and those dry north winds are making for an unusually warm day today into the 60s. i'll have your full accuweather seven day forecast in a few moments. >> also still ahead on the ground in southern california, we're hearing from bay area crews helping thousands of other fi

. >> paradise. it's the most beautiful thing we live in paradise across the country looking saying, oh, my gosh, we're so jealous. that was an rose ramoparty goers in san francisco starting the new year in style at the city's longest-running new year's day celebration. >> the breakfast of champions lack party kicked off today, celebrating their 25th anniversary with music, aerial performances, arts and of course, some food. >> day party. >> the event started at 4 this morning and goes until 09:00pm. so there's still time that wraps up kron. 4 news at 6. we'll see you tonight at 10 11. happy holidays. announcer: hot pursuit. the epic 100-mile-per-hour chase, but it wasn't what the cops were expecting. man: my wife's going into labor. her water broke and we're rushing to the hospital. announcer: plus, baggage bandits. how safe is your checked luggage at the airport this holiday season? police say this guy swiped a bag right off the carousel. they found him hiding in the bathroom.

we're joined by the mayor of paradise. his town was destroyed by wildfire

is paradise but built to burn. it is extraordinarily dry and theirs tons of brush and lots of environmental factors we can get into. but the reality, and i have lived in los angeles for the past four years of my life, the reality is anyone there will tell you it does not matter if you identify as a democrat or republican or independent, los angeles is governed by people who have lost sight of the basics of governing. they have lost sight of the idea that we pay you a tax so you take care of basics for us. and nothing could be more basic than preventing the burning down of as you said in your introduction an area twice the size of manhattan. it is hard to conceive of how big this is. i woke up to text messages and almost everyone we know have evacuated their homes and we know people who have lost their homes and the reason there is so little trust and the reason that you saw in that clip, that mother confronting governor newsom with such rage is because theirs so much that led up to this moment. just to choose one e

ritter with his steel teeth poisoned paradise was baroness louise known as crazy panties, who ruled the island with gun in love, murdered by one of her love slaves after. she had driven the other to his death. and why is fraud or going back to what she once called hell's volcano? the mystery of the galapagos island germany covets to be solved at last. so it was sort of a record scratch moment where i everything stopped around me and i abandoned any other idea i was thinking about and i this is the book i wanted to write, but my publisher at the time said, no, we want american history with american characters i wrote other books, years passed, but my heart mind always stayed on the story. and finally i took out the publisher who actually published this book, the head of crown, and just said, you know, this isn't a european, this isn't an american story. this is a human story. who among us hasn't wanted to ditch our lives and go somewhere, start anew and and try something simpler? who has it wanted to get away from while mistakes they made and just go where nobody knows them and they coul

the kidnappers had left eduardo alive, if barely, but paradise? paradise was lost.i lost everything that i knew about life just like that, gone. keith morrison (voiceover): they came to america to jayne's mother's place to start all over, again. nayah valseca: i wanted change after that happened. i wanted a new environment, and i wanted change. we needed a reset button after everything. fernando valseca: everything changed from one day to another, everything every single thing that you could imagine. it's literally two different lives. keith morrison (voiceover): that kidnapped employee, by the way? the kidnappers simply released him nearly three months later. no ransom at all. the federal police continued to maintain that the kidnapping was the work of a marxist revolution party called the epr, but there were no arrests. there were no answers. and gradually, the memory of their terror was mixed with nostalgia for the life they'd left behind, which is, in part, why a year and a half after eduardo's release, he and jayne decided to return with us to their beloved ran

so many times in all i can think of is that this truly is paradise lost. now as far as the human toll we, we still don't know exactly how it's how bad it's going to be. but as you mentioned, there's so many of hector birds. so many 1000, maybe 10009000 or 10000 structures destroyed the sheriff of los angeles county. robert luna says we don't know the half of it yet. as officers and 1st responders go from door to door and all of those houses seeking human remains, hoping not to find them, but possibly possibly it's, it's going to be much, much worse than the the physical told the material damage the economic damage on calculable right now i've heard estimates of a $150000000000.00 to that. that seems low. the emotional toll is, is also something that people are having really hard time coming to grips with. i spoke to one mother who was high school teenage child was weeping in the night just thinking of all the places that she knew in her neighborhood in pacific palisades or friends, houses that have been destroyed her houses. okay. but as her, her whole bac

, this is paradise upon paradise of pacific palisades.t they are dealing with now. they're just figuring out what do they do, how do they pick up their lives? and this, harris, is street after street after street as we pan slightly to our left there. and you can see the white picture fence and what was a beautiful home behind that white picture fence, and i want to bring brian back as he pans lefn awful lot of work over the last couple of days, but he's the best at it. look across the street, and it's the same street, and if you go left, i don't want to go too far left because he's right into the sun. that is what is left of it. and pretty much nothing, and so many people are coming back to find that situation now and to work out how to deal with it. and you know i just want to tell a little story, and kennedy has been talking about this, so i know she won't mind repeating it. she got in touch with me yesterday, and she has a house here, and she said i have no idea if it's standing, can you check on it. we did. it was fine at that point.

we had a fire in california where it was paradise, where 85 people died. we had at the same time frame down in malibu. president trump and i flew out to california, spending time with governor elect gavin newsom and governor jerry brown. i watched president trump tell them exactly what they need to do. we know winds are going to come in california. we know fires are going to come. but it would not be this devastation if the fire did not have the fuel, if the fire had better planning for evacuation, or if people would not have gotten out of cars. gavin newsom knew already being elected but not sworn in what he should focus on. and he did not. he perpetuated this problem as we went forward. and you know another thing that's going to be devastation to these families? i know many of them there totally wiped out. his lack of movement when it came to insurance. there is a lot of these homes there that have no insurance. because they pulled out. my 82-year-old mother a year ago lost her insurance from geico when she had no claims. he has run california into a hol

this is a years long process, as we've seen in paradise, as we've seen in santa rosa.nd the problem for this community is that, yes, there are a lot of reasonably wealthy people here who can spring back. but the question is, are they going to spring back here, or is this going to become like so many other communities where people just leave and then it takes years and years to replace it? all of these things are on the table. but the biggest thing that's on the table from all of this is this massive loss, which is extraordinarily massive, is going to change fundamentally what insurance is in california and very likely the united states. back to you. >> all right, tom, some very sobering facts indeed. and stay safe out there. nice work. we appreciate your time. all right. if you would like to help, you can join fox support of families impacted by the southern california wildfires. your donation enables the red cross to respond to and help people recover from the disaster. visit. go, fox. slash red cross to support these efforts, or you can simply scan the qr code and th

. >> the mayor and others in the northern california town of paradise were in. back in 2018, the town was decimated and 85 people died in the camp fire in and around paradise. mayor of paradise says his stepdaughter just lost her home in the eaton fire down south. he also reached out to city leaders in altadena. >> one thing that that i told him is don't let anybody tell you you can't do this because they're wrong. you can do this and you will do this. and we're we're kind of the proof of that. >> six years after the camp fire, which burned 95% of the area. mayor crowder says most of the town has been rebuilt and thousands have returned. >> well, here at home happening today. first lady jill biden is expected to be the keynote speaker at a major conference in san francisco. she'll take part in the j.p. morgan healthcare conference. ktvu james torres is live in the city with how much this event means for the city. james. >> andre. we have seen union square bustling with people for the last two hours here as the city woke up as the conference day two started getti

how do you think seeking paradise can lead to such extreme outcomes as your title indicates? >> yeah utopias such a subjective term. i think it's also constantly in flux depending on what's happening to you. the bernahe shows up in her idea of utopia she announces to everybody to great dismay which is she wants it turned this tiny island in the southern part of the galapagos into miami but she wants to make a miami resort to allure american tourist in frederic ritter who just wants to study philosophy and heinz whitmer is the quiet family living there are terrified about what she's going to do. she made no about the fact that she's not afraid to get what she wanted done. she carried a gun. >> she carries a gun and she carries a knife and a wet. various things happen in the book but she says that'ss her idea of utopia. she makes those plants andes announcesy that things start getting interesting for everybody. >> one of the first things i've read about the book before i actually read the book was it's compared to agatha christie and i'm a huge agatha christie fans. i'm like i

you know, i remember paradise happened in november. i mean, so there's no fire season in california. it's year round. but to have this level, the acuity of fires is without precedent. >> and mayor karen bass gave a press conference about an hour or so ago. obviously, there are a lot of questions about about the water situation, about, you know, any cuts to the fire department budgeting issues. there'll be a lot of, of of that for now. the firefighters are still doing the job and it's going to be a long night. it's going to be a long couple of days. >> galen, you know, anderson, i was watching you earlier and a house was was literally burning to the ground behind you as you were standing there reporting in the hours that you've been there. i mean, how many houses do you think you have seen burn down? >> um. i don't know. uh, 20. um, i'm not sure. i mean, i haven't left, i've been in, like, i've been standing on an intersection and just walking up and down the four blocks of that intersection, and i've watched all those houses burn, and

you know, paradise. i just went back there five years after that was the historically the most devastating fire in recent history. in this state, only about a third of the people remain. they came back to rebuild and had to rebuild in a whole new way. the people who were there really want to be there, but they had to rethink the relationship with the land. and that was certainly will be the case in a place like this. the palisades 100 year history here, settled by methodist like a century ago. and then a lot of jewish intellectuals fleeing world war two settled here. so it's this really beautiful melting pot, very aspirational real estate. a lot of folks in the entertainment industry living in these million dollar homes. but there's also the waiters and the cops and the teachers as part of this community who may not be able to afford the fire insurance that comes with living in a place like this right now. so all of these mounting sort of economic stressors on top of the infrastructure, on top of knowing

paradise. i just went back there five years after. that was the historically the most devastating fire in recent history. in this state, only about a third of the people remain. they came back to rebuild and they had to rebuild in a whole new way. the people who were there really want to be there, but they had to rethink the relationship with the land. and that was certainly will be the case in a place like this. the palisades 100 year history here, settled by methodist like a century ago. and then a lot of jewish intellectuals fleeing world war ii settled here. so it's this really beautiful melting pot, very aspirational real estate. a lot of folks in the entertainment industry living in these million dollar homes. but there's also the waiters and the cops and the teachers as part of this community who may not be able to afford the fire insurance that comes with living in a place like this right now. so all of these mounting sort of economic stressors on top of the infrastructure, on top of knowing where your kids are going to go to

devastating wildfires in 2018, the camp fire killed more than 80 people and destroyed 95% of paradise, including crowder's own home. the day after the eaton fire began its devastating sweep through altadena, crowder reached out to the town council chairperson to offer his experience, guidance and encouragement. he spoke to cnn about paradise recovery and his hopes for altadena. >> i went through the same feelings. i came up to this town after it burned, and i looked around and i went, there's no way we're ever going to come back from this. and as time passed and and some progress was made with debris removal, i looked and said, you know, i think we might be able to do that six years later. we are well on the road. and what i told her is, just don't lose hope. don't let anybody tell you you can't because you absolutely can. and we are proof of that. there's challenges. you're you're, you know, living amongst the construction zone. but you're back in your community and it's got it's still got its beauty. you've got your friends around you. we have probably right now it's about a 50 over

this reminds me of lahaina and paradise combined and expanded. it is really unreal. but coming up later in the show, we were also up in topanga where you saw that that little, uh, amazing community banding together there, watching that line hold the line. and we're going to and we asked what their impressions are of the first responders who are catching a lot of heat these days. but i'll be back with you later in the show to share that. >> all right, bill, look forward to that. we're going to take a short break. we'll have more from a number of spots. as we said, there are six fires. the two major fires zero containment on those, the eaton fire. and here the palisades fire a lot ahead. stay with us. >> why do 80% of nfl players choose a sleep number bed? >> because the higher my sleep iq score, the better i play. but that's not the only reason he likes to stay firm. >> i like my side. soft sleep number does that effortless comfort all night. >> so sleeping on a smart bed is why you can play like this. >> yeah, because i also like to sleep cool and i like to sleep eve

are going to entirely new york city off from traffic and just sort be a pedestrian and bicyclists paradise you do need cars you have parts of the city that are not well-served by transit. you have people who who want or or need to get away in a private motor vehicle for various idiosyncratic reasons and broader reasons. the success here is measured in. there are certain parts of the urban areas where you shouldn't have any or limited automobile traffic. you know, of course, times square that global comparisons would be places covent garden, pedestrians areas of the paris case copenhagen central streets. so there are some areas where no you don't want cars you want something like a free bus service going through those areas. and there are other places where you want to narrow the road, but you want traffic going more slowly. ocean parkway in brooklyn is a good example. you're not going to get rid of the cars there, but we've succeeded with the speed and red light cameras that you don't have people driving through there now at 50 miles an hour. people are going 25 miles an hour. you know tha

the governor of california has promised after six years of office when he came to my district in paradise to do more. so he said, we have done all this acreage. we have done all this work, which overstated by five times. here we have now the situation in southern california where this brush is catching on fire and in the high winds it's just a tinderbox that flows into the neighborhoods and burns down pacific palisades and all the others affected like that. they have suspended their brush program there. so gavin newsome can't point to say we have done this great stuff here and blame everybody else like he does waving his arms around. instead they have not done the work and put people in danger as well as the issue with water in california flowing out to the pacific is instead of being stored to help keep their storage facilities full. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. lamalfa: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to speak to the house. the speaker pr

, actually up in paradise, they are rebuilding right now. and the mayor told one of my colleagues, stephanie becker, that they are rebuilding with the power lines under the ground, because obviously, if the power lines are under the ground, they can't get hit by branches and high wind, which sends sparks which create fires. so basically what we're learning is people say we need to treat this as a wake up call. we need to prepare, and we need to fight fires in a completely different way. now that our climate has changed to the point where something like this is very, very possible. jake. >> all right. nick and pacific palisades, thanks so much. let's get right to cnn meteorologist chad myers and chad, the winds and the dry conditions continue to fuel these fires. >> yep, yep. >> and today, jake, the winds are from a slightly different direction. so what the firefighters were planning on the wind going this way now. going this way. so what? the firefighters have to get away from the head of the fire, because now there's a new head of the fire

this is like paradise, california.stings ranch and go to the top, it is an inferno. this is the worst thing you could wish in someone's life, aside from death. celebrities are among those fleeing the area. eugene leavy lives in the area and told local media he was forced to evacuate his home. the smoke looked pretty black and intense. he was speaking to the los angeles times. elsewhere, steve guttenberg stayed to help firefighters by moving cars to make room for fire trucks. he had a message for residents leaving the area. 0ther other celebrities that reportedly have homes in the area include tom hanks, jennifer aniston, area include tom hanks, jenniferaniston, reese jennifer aniston, reese witherspoon and james jenniferaniston, reese witherspoon and james woods. james woods described evacuating his home and said he was not sure if it was still standing. 0n instagram, mark hamon, most famous for his role in star wars, called the blaze the most horrific fire since 1993 and says he evacuated malibu suit last minute, ther

you know, i remember paradise happened in november. i mean, so there's no fire season in california. it's year round. but to have this level of the acuity of fires is without precedent. >> and mayor karen bass gave a press conference about an hour or so ago. obviously, there are a lot of questions about about the water situation, about, you know, any cuts to the fire department budgeting issues. there'll be a lot of, of of that for now. the firefighters are still doing the job and it's going to be a long night. it's going to be a long couple of days. >> galen, you know, anderson, i was watching you earlier and a house was was literally burning to the ground behind you as you were standing there reporting in the hours that you've been there. i mean, how many houses do you think you have seen burned down? >> um, i don't know. uh, 20. um, i'm not sure. i mean, i haven't left. i've been in, like, i've been. i've been standing on an intersection and just walking up and down the four blocks of that intersection. and i've watched all those ho

you promised paradise to the thief will re pendant. bring out brother to joyce of heaven. o brother was washed and baptism and anointed with the holy spirit. give him fellowship with all your saints. >> lord, come for us and our sorrows at the death brother. faith be our constellation. and he turn alive. our hope. >> father of all, we pray to you for james and for all those we love. but seeing no longer. >> granted them turn a rest. like perpetual shine upon them. may his soul. and the souls of all the departed through the mercy of god. rest in peace. >> give resto christ to your servant with your saints. where sorrow and pain are no neither signing. but life ever last. >> you only are immortal. the creator and maker of humankind. and we are mortal formed of the year. and to earth. we return. >> for so did day when you created me saying you are dust. >> to dust, you shall return. all of us go down to the dust. >> yet, even at the grave we make our song. >> louis, a yeah. >> give rest so price to your servant with your saints. we're pain are no more. neither solid life ev r

once a paradise on earth, now turn to ash the palisades fire sitting run 24000 acres in total around 40000 acres has burned across southern california. you to put that in some perspective that is around three times the size of the island of manhattan. now, utility workers are returning here as the cleanup process begins. making things a little safer than they once were. an issue as firefighters continued to battle the flames, you ate v's, drones, civilian drones and that is forcing firefighting aircraft to land. forcing them out of the fire fight. around 48 drone encounters have been reported that the big issue for firefighters in one instance a super scooper was hit by one of these drones that damage the wing and forfeit their land. it is taken out of the fire fight until at least tomorrow but we are talking the santa anna wind event. thp that's goingto pick it up in hours. that is going to last through wednesday at you set it up to 7s between 30 are expected here in the fires and that has the ability to take these embers, acast them for hundreds of feet potentially for miles. we ha

>> jesse: they have ruined paradise. and that's what it is.ifornia is paradise, it has everything. is this finally going to wake people up in california? >> listen, it would be nice because every time i talk to someone about california, i say what is it going to take? what is it going to take to change direction? i have been here my whole life, i have seen it erode my whole life. and they say we have not bottomed out yet. we have not bottomed out. i think the entire place being on fire would it define a bottoming out. so now that we have bottomed out and you hear all of these people from malibu -- malibu is blue as there is no bluer space than santa monica, no bluer space than the palisades. and now all of these people who voted for gavin newsom are speaking up and waking up. so yes, this is the bottoming out that we needed in order to change direction because these people are narcissistic sanctimonious jack holes who would never admit we are bottoming out as we bottomed out. >> jesse: so if you bought him out, the same people who caused you t

. >> that's the fire that destroyed the town of paradise. as we all remember painfully, the eaton and palisades are poised to become the second and third most destructive. moving past the 2017 tubbs fire in the north bay and the 1991 oakland hills fire, the eaton fire burning in altadena has claimed at least six lives and damaged or destroyed an estimated 7000 structures. the palisades blaze has claimed at least five lives. meantime, with an estimated 5300 structures damaged or destroyed. >> as you know, this is a total team effort. firefighters from across the state and especially the bay area are on the ground right now in southern california, lending support to those local crews still fighting these destructive wildfires. >> abc seven news reporter cornell bernard is checking in with some of them today, and he's live in nevada for us with details. cornell. >> yeah. hey, christine and julian, firefighters from station 61 here in novato, now part of a strike team of other marin county firefighters who are in the l.a. area right now lending

paradise has been named the fastest growing town in california in 2024.ction continues to come in regarding meta's decision to end its fact checking program. now, ceo mark zuckerberg says the change is meant to, quote, address political bias and curtail censorship. the company is also reducing the restrictions on the posts that users can share. now, critics fear that this will lead to more inaccurate information on facebook and hate speech that will go unchecked, which will lead to more people struggling to know what is the truth. >> this is a naked political decision where people are prioritizing profit over the best interests of society and over the best interests of kids and families. period. >> the changes will be phased in over the next couple of months. i'm pam cook. that's a look at your dollars and cents. pam. >> thank you. 748 we'll swing back to the traffic center and see what sal castaneda has been monitoring. >> all right. you know, right now we do see slow traffic in many spots, including the bay bridge, which i would like to start with a lot