robert ray, thank you so much. will: thank you, robert.hel: so fascinating, just this really critical moment we're in right now before the santa ana winds come in and everything can get even worse. so hoping they can actually contain this. will: well, let's put this into context. leave that picture up for just a moment. i think that's very instruct thive. this is live footage from the air of the pacific palisades fire. you can see the lights in the background looking towards, i would assume that is brentwood, westwood, beverly hills. in fact, if we come back now into the studio, i'll put this into context, if i could. we'll go to the wall and show you exactly where these fires are burning. the ones you're seeing on your screen right now, let's put it up on a map here, and you can see what's happening in southern california. the three fires that basically were referenced by robert ray and we have up on the map are the kenneth fire, the palisades fire and the eaton fire, but there are six fires burning further north, several up here in the s

will: robert ray, thank you so much. rachel: thanks, robert: will: not to personalize everything but bring personal experience to fires when i went to pepperdine, there's a semblance of normal life to contend with and tried to have water polo practice through it all and lungs burn and eyes burn. most of southern california is experiencing that and even if you're not next to the fires. in fact, look at southern california and get a better visual of where the fires are and how much of southern california they're affecting. this map focusing on three of the fires. first of all, palisades fire, kenneth and eaton fire. i asked robert about geography and malibu extending this way from palisades and mentioning brentwood, these are neighborhoods for the palisades fire up under threat and calabashes and connects to malibu. this is where i lived and commuted to pepperdine here. this is burning and it's close together. in the eaton fire over by pass dina in the mountains and threatening -- pasadena and threatening all the neighborho

. >> carley: let's go to robert ray live on the ground standing outside one of the burned structures in los angeles county. roberts, good morning. >> good morning to you pacific palisades where i am at right now over 17,000 acres burned, unfortunately. you see this home behind me is an inferno right now. there are many things like this up and down the neighborhood right off of the pacific highway and the pacific ocean. malibu adjust to the north, guys. take a look at the video from last night in the hollywood hills coach at the sunset fire. we landed here yesterday and we went directly from lax to this fire as it ignited. we got pretty close up there with the firefighters as they were extinguishing or train to, at least go to extinguish the fire appeared to player is still going on. unfortunately right now, there are five fire is not contained. as a matter of fact, pacific palisades fire right now is 0% containment if you can believe that. when the light does come up, i think those assessments will go into a better scope. they may have some containment, but as i speak right now and hi

maria: thank you very much, robert ray president trump ripping into california gavin newsom and l.a. i think that gavin is largely incompetent. i think the mayor is largely incompetent and probably both of them are stone cold incompetent. what they've done is terrible. maria: mayor bass is getting defensive and skirting reported questions she did this yesterday when pressed about her response. watch. >> we did not see a single fire engine we watched as good samaritans guided traffic there was fear and a lot of confusion. you were out of the country at the time. what explains the lack of preparation and rapid response. >> let me say first and foremost. my number one focus in the focus of all of us here with one voice we have to protect lives and save lives and we have to save homes. rest assured, let me finish. rest assured when that is done and we are safe and lives have been saved and homes have been saved we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked, what did not work and to correct or hold accountable anybody or department or individual et cetera. maria: and non- ans

fox weather robert ray has the latest from new orleans. robert.: hey jackie greet frustration the french quarter it is very loud to bare with me here. this afternoon, as the frenchars is back in action after a week where everything was suspended because of the incredible historical remarkable winter storm that came in. look at some of this video of the snow on tuesday as it blanketed the gulf coast and specifically more or less. and some areas here up to a foot of snow fell just creating hazardous conditions on bridges, roadways, interstate, airmingt everything was shut from school to restaurants to bars to the economy here, and that is why now you're hearing seeing all of this flurry of activity here. this afternoon, in the french quarter, amid may be jackie the last snow pile that we could find at least on bourbon street here as you hear all of this. now here's the deal super bowl on fox in two weeks from tomorrow. and so all of the time that was lost this week, and prepping the streets and making sure everything is safe, especially with what ha

we want to begin with robert ray who has the latest from indianapolis. robert. >> good afternoon and happy new year to you from indianapolis, the capital here in the state of indiana. streets loaded with snow. all this snow is going to stop following friendly atmosphere. winter weather warnings in effect until 7:00 p.m. tonight. look at all of this. inches of snow has fallen across the hoosier state. the roads are not in good condition right now in downtown indianapolis as many accidents have occurred on the interstates, highways, and roadways. unfortunately across the swath of multiple states, six people have lost their lives that includes a child. look at this video from around indianapolis. all that snow began about 9:00 a.m. yesterday morning on sunday for the winter weather warning has continued. gusty winds at 40 miles an hour and the overnight hours as the snow was blowing to the south on the border of indiana and kentucky. louisville. they got a mix of that ice and that snow, making roads very, very dangerous. as you noted earlier, some of this hi

rachel: robert ray is live on the ground in pacific palisades track the latest flairup, good morning, robert. reporter: good morning. from a burned out incinerated neighborhood here and pacific palisades and vehicles scorched and people's belongings simply remarkable scenes here as all of this area, la county, going through historic fires. as a matter of fact the palisades fire, which is burning up in these hills and flaired up yet again last night. over 21,000 acres are scorched and thousands of men and women on the ground trying to contain that fire unfortunately. it is the largest, largest wild fire in la county history. a fire storm because of the santa ana winds that came through and see these visuals and remarkable from the air and evacuations in surrounding communities to try and protect people on top of thousands of evacuations that occurred over the course of the past several days and started last tuesday. there's six fires currently burning in areas like palisades and mall beautiful claims came down the mountainside and destroying the pacific coast highway and taking out cou

. >> dana: robert ray is live in indianapolis. how is it there? >> good morning. snow and gusty winds continue to roll through the capital here in indianapolis. about a million people metro. the roads as you can see are quite a mess in the down tan area and on the interstates. they're doing their best to plow it. when you have this fast and this wet of snow that comes down over the course of 24 hours moving in, it is tough. you have to have vehicles like this to make your way through. you see another pass is needed by a plow. but you take a look at some of this video from indianapolis in the past 24 hours. that's just a sample of what we've experienced across america over the course of the past couple days. we know what occurred in kansas are the blizzard conditions and closing of kansas city international airport. unfortunately we have four people that have lost their lives because of this massive winter storm covering over 21 hundred miles and nearly 30 states. in fact, seven states still in a state of emergency, washington, d.c. also in a snow emergency as they

>> robert ray live there in santa monica. >> what was it like in the fires coming through. we have a pasadena resident and he had to evacuate twice in the 24 hours. bruce, how are you doing now and where are you hanging out since you got evacuated twice. >> thank you for having me. i'm not happy to be here but i think it's important for people to hear. i live in pasadena one and a half miles from eaton fire can john where the fire started and a tuesday night our neighbor sent a picture of our next door neighbors house with flames above it. my wife and i were out of the house and that is my next door neighbors house. eaton fire is behind it. we were horrified to see that. we were out of our house in an hour and went to my stepdaughter's house in eagle rock seven miles west thinking that would be sufficient. spent the night there and woke up to learn parts of eagle rock were also under evacuation and we relocated to the west side to a friend's house near a business and l.a. x airport and have been there sense. this is friday morning. three days. >> so tell me, when you saw th

burn out of control ahead of another santa ana wind event, we want to send it out to correspondent robert ray out here in the pacific palisades. rob, what are you seeing? -- robert, what are you seeing? >> reporter: yeah, bill, good morning. we're in a burned-out neighborhood in the pacific palisades right on the pacific coast highway just to the south of malibu. and you see this neighborhood here completely torched by these wildfires and the winds, those santa ana winds that were gusting from. 700 to 100 miles an hour -- 700 to 100 miles an hour last tuesday into wednesday. the concern as we've all been speak about is this palisades fire that is on the ridge on the other side of where we're at right now. it is burning, and they're looking to try and contain a parts of that so it does not encroach on communities like brentwood. even in this area where there's not an active fire where we are at in this neighborhood, ashes are falling from the sky from the fire, and the winds that are gusting across. maybe you see some of the orange and brown hues in the sky. that is the smoke that is flying ov

robert ray stay safe. massive storm is to bring in freezing temperatures and dangr snow and ice.e is it heading and how long will it last question are for more on this fox news meteorologist adam klotz and sorting us with the latest but so far the storm is looking as advertised. >> absolutely and covering a huge area a lot of people feeling they impact. although ultimately it's a huge from east to west, north to south not as massive of a storm for if you are in the path of it you're going to be seeing this for a very long time. one of the spots really initially it right back across the plains this is kansas city. a whole lot of places that are near blizzard conditions for them in dealing with blizzard like conditions all day which is really just talking but very heavy snowfall and wind that blows this note make visibility almost down to zero really dangerous conditions of blizzard warnings are in place large for the back across kansas by getting into missouri as well produce the ice storm warnings everything in a deeper purple shade that's going to be really dangerous and then ev

the eaton fire is 73% contained, as fox's robert ray shows, us crews are doing everything they can to remove anything that could easily burn with those high winds that are expected in the coming days. >> for another neighborhood here in the pacific palisades, burned out everywhere you look incinerated by these fires. if there is good news, here it is. the palisades fire is under control now. containment numbers continue to go up, and there are thousands of firefighters that are on the front lines making that happen. all the while, thousands of people who had to leave evacuate their beautiful neighborhoods that are still waiting to come back in. and that could take time. but take a look at this journey into mandeville canyon with the firefighters and exactly what they're up against. this is mandeville canyon and one of the neighborhoods here in the palisades fire. and what you see behind me are firefighters and teams, and it's called fuel suppression. they're basically taking all the vegetation they can and chainsawing it out, or ripping it out and getting it to the side so that they c

r robert ray is live in pacific palisades. astrophic scene in the hills not far from the pacific ocean. pch, pacific coasts highway, running along pacific ocean, malibu to the north, santa monica to the south and pacific palisades here in ruins here. neighborhoods destroyed. over 1000 structure in an inferno. look at this video we just shot in the course of the overnight hours. a home engulfed in flames. roof collapsed and exterior being hosed down trying to salvage what they can in the area. sun will come up in next couple hours and assessments will continue as will firefighting. zero percent containment here and over 17,000 acres burned one of five fires and five people have lost their lives so far. ainsley. >> ainsley: tragic. thank you. one pacific palisades homeowner watching on ring security camera as the fires were creeping up to his white picket fence in front of his house on tuesday. you can see it here. this is before and after. before flames took over his home anok to the right, burning it totally to the ground. that

. >> 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 fires burning, zero percent containment. here is the pacific palisades fire. look at this video from yesterday evening. we landed at lax and got word of a new fire called sunset fire. made our way there and followed the first responders into the hills as they tried to extinguish what they could. meanwhile, palm trees burning at the very top and people being evacuated, tossing their animals into backs of vehicles, trying to make thei

robert ray, thank you. karen bas and gavin newsom are facing increasing criticism over their respond from the fires, including from donald trump. >> todd: madeleine rivera joins us. >> madeleine: l.a. mayor karen bass is on defense, she was out of the country when the fire spread on tuesday. she had traveled to gony for inauguration of the new president and did not come back until tuesday. she was peppered from questions about the city's respond. >> we did not see a single fire engine. we watched as good sas mayor tans guided traffic. there was fear and a lot of confusion. you were out of the country at the time. what explains this lack of preparation and upon raid respond? >> let me say first and foremost, my number one focus and focus of all of us here with one voice is we have to protect lives. we have to save lives and we have to save homes. rest assured -- >> that did not happen. >> rest assured, let me finish. when that is done, when we are safe, lives have been saved and homes have been saved, we wil

robert ray in los angeles.e look for accountability, the search for accountability continues. the la fire chief has admitted that leadership failed her department, $17 million cut to her budget in the latest los angeles budget and there's been a bit of a blame game between the governor, the mayor, and the fire chief and i'm sure there is enough to go around in california. krista crowley, the city of los angeles fire chief saying she was failed, the angelenos were failed by the city of los angeles. >> did the city of los angeles fail you and our city? >> it's my job to stand up as a chief and exactly say justifiably what the fire department needs to operate to meet the demands of the community. that is our job and i tell you that is why i am here. get us what we need so firefighters can do their jobs. >> did they fail you? >> yes. rachel: if she thought she needed more resources she should have been using the press to say this is fire season, there's a lot of brush. we need more resources because this is a tinde

evening this could be most snow that some states have seen in over a decade fox weather correspondent robert rayminneapolis with the latest. hey. >> good evening to you nicole and everyone watching here from a blustery cold windy snowy downtown and with more on the way could be up to a foot of snow here in indy. many vehicles still out on the roadways as plows are moving this snow and these wind gusts potentially could hit up to 30, 35 miles per hour. but look at this video from earlier today from indianapolis it all began here at about 9 a.m. has been continuing throughout and will go all the way until tomorrow this winter weather warning expires at 7 p.m. on monday. and this is just the surface. where we're at if we look at this storm it all started several days ago, in california -- across the sierras across the rockies with great plains kansas city airport totally shut down tonight blizzard conditions in play, the most snow that they've seen in 15 years in kc. power outages are mounting well over 100,000 customers in multiple states as that snow and ice line is tricky to the south of where w

fox weather correspondent robert ray is north and indianapolis, one of the many cities impacted.ot a pretty good dumping. >> yeah, john. we sure do. america's 14th largest city, indianapolis, the capital of the state. look at the roads, just a mess. here is the good news. all of this snow -- it is all done. the impact has already occurred as multiple entities have fallen in downtown and surrounding area. nearly a million people who live here. take a look at this video sunday morning as the snow began to come in. heavy winds, 30-mile-an-hour wind gust came in. thankfully, this part, indianapolis was not on that snow ice line. multiple places in cities and states south of louisville, kentucky, did get that ice causing crippling scenarios for power outages. as i speak right now, hundreds of thousands of customers across states are out of power for the worst part about this storm is six people have lost their lives from this terrible system that has come across nearly 30 states over 60 million people. as you noted hitting washington, d.c., as we speak. crippling travel on roadways an

just extraordinary, robert ray on the ground firefighters are working around the clock but reportedly running out of water as tens of thousands flee their homes the fires could cost $50 billion in damages so far president trump has been blasting the handling of the wildfires, trump road on true social what are the best and beautiful parts of the united states of america is burning down to the ground. it is ashes and gavin newsom should resign this is all his fault rates president trump. critics are slamming governing new some for a photo of the palisades fire in this video on your screen. take a look, responding to trump's criticism. watch this. >> people are fleeing people have lost their lives, kids lost their schools, families, churches burned down in the sky wanted to politicize it. i have a lot of thoughts and i know what i want to say but i won't. , i stood next to the president of the united states of america and i was proud to be with joe biden andy on the backs of every single person of this community and politics cannot divide any of us. >> trump says he will work with the g

fox weather robert ray is live in pacific palisades where the largest fire is burning out of control rt, what can you tell us? >> >> yeah, hey lawrence. this is about as devastating and catastrophic as a fire can get. you look at this right here, and i just -- maybe we widen out the shot. look at this huge structure that is burning as i speak right now. it's collapsed. all of the steel just mangled as if it was a piece of paper. this is over 17,000 square footage of this area of pacific palisades that is destroyed. neighborhoods in complete ruin. just down the hill from where we are at right now is the pacific ocean. and the pch. pacific coast highway that leads up to malibu and then to the south, santa monica. malibu in total destruction. people's livelihoods, their memories their family homes gone. this massive structure collapsed by the force of the fire and the winds that came through here. over 1,000 structures in ruin, maybe even more as assessment continues, when the light comes up, the winds have died down. we do not have hurricane force winds any longer. no 100 mile-per-hour

robert ray from fox weather is standing by with the latest from there. >> good afternoon to you, fromly tragic scene from malibu and the pch -- the pacific coast highway. and my gosh, look behind me, as far as the eye can see. structures, homes, memories destroyed by these raging fires. electrical lines without electricity running through that have fallen and collapsed by these winds and these unbelievable fires. fire storms, if you will. this fire that has affected malibu and the pacific palisades and by the way, we have water coming out of the hydrant, something that a lot of firemen were having issues with in the past few days. but this fire, the pacific palisades fire has burned more than 20,000 acres as we speak right now. the most acreage in any l.a. county history of fires, and significant total. and 30,000 acres on the five fires still burning here, and 8% containment at this point, and some of the neighborhoods up in the hills in palisades are absolutely decimateed and still smoldering and by the way, when you see all of the smoke that continues to come out of all of this wre

robert ray is live on the coast line in hard-hit malibu, california, where, once again, the air qualityhing in to debris, which these used to be businesses and homes here in malibu. a sink here and you have steel all over the place, fire still simmering all over here amid the ashes, and you look at giant structures here in malibu totally destroyed and some of the video from around this area we are not far from palisades which has burned about 20,000 acres at this point. devastating structures and neighborhoods. over 10,000 structures across los angeles have been burned amid these five different fires. 10 people have lost their lives, unfortunately and all of this debris in the dark of night and the smells and the odors and the smoke that continues to warm front around here, there are more resources that have come in to fight these fires from surrounding states and northern california as well. the fire here in palisades sparked up against last night because of the winds that kicked up. those santa ana winds. we expect those to die down a little bit today but activate again over the weeke

robert ray, we so appreciate it. thank you so much for your time this morning. >>> all right, let's get back to the senate floor where kristi noem appears to have the votes to become the next department of homeland security secretary. we're going to continue to monitor the saturday session as more of president trump's cabinet picks await confirmation. earlier we were able to see pete hegseth sworn in as secretary of defense. >>> all right, that's going to do it for now. i'm jackie deangelis. remember, you can catch me on "the big money show," expanding, two hours, starting monday at noon on the fox business network, and i'm going to the hand it other to missouri mike -- over to the mike emanuel. he's going to take it from here. "fox news live" continues now. ♪ if. ♪ ♪ mike: you are looking live at the floor of the united states senate as voting is now closed in the confirmation of kristi noem to be our next ohm lan security secretary. this after pete hegseth was sworn in moments ago as secretary of defense after vice

we want to sending it out to correspondent robert ray live in pacific palisades where we are.on't know if you've been watching that smoke plume over the hill but it is getting a little bit better. but here in palisades everything has been wiped out. >> yeah. it sure has, bill cheryl everyone watching indeed. yeah yet another neighborhood that is destroyed by the palisades fire and interesting to listen to that press conference. i thought it was also notable to hear the sheriff talk about the origins or potential origins of these fires. and a call to action as he said as if there's anyone out there that has heard anything or spoke to someone or watched social media post read a social media post as to someone up to nefarious intentions that should alert authorities because that is a discussion that you hear amongst a lot of the angelenos here talking about, you know, how did this all start and get here beyond santa ana winds hurricane force winds on tuesday and into wednesday. so interesting to see if anything comes out of that. but yeah. in the meantime, bill, you know as i sta

. >> live at the table robert ray, danny mills and montel is back with us. robert, i don't blame the president elect for being upset. he is entitled to do that. but he did get off with absolutely no penalty whatsoever. um, why not just let this go? >> because an appeal was important, i think, to him. and i think, i hope people accept, you know, to the country as well. um, you know, if look, if it had been me and i had been a supreme court justice, i would have voted to end this thing. but amy coney barrett may be right that under the circumstances, agreeing essentially with judge merchan, the only way for this to be tested on appeal is to have allowed that sentencing to go forward. otherwise, what would have happened is this would have been put off until 2029, at which point there may never have been an appeal and it may have been dropped. you know, there would have been a political cost, i think, also to the supreme court's reputation, if they had decided to intervene here, they can always intervene later. and the four votes in the dissent suggest that they'

and as fox is, robert ray shows, us crews are doing everything they can to remove anything that couldrn with more wind expected in the coming days. >> for another neighborhood here in the pacific palisades, burned out everywhere you look incinerated by these fires. if there is good news, here it is. the palisades fire is under control now. containment numbers continue to go up, and there are thousands of firefighters that are on the front lines making that happen. all the while, thousands of people who had to leave evacuate their beautiful neighborhoods that are still waiting to come back in. and that could take time. but take a look at this journey into mandeville canyon with the firefighters and exactly what they're up against. this is mandeville canyon and one of the neighborhoods here in the palisades fire. and what you see behind me are firefighters and teams, and it's called fuel suppression. they're basically taking all the vegetation they can and chainsawing it out, or ripping it out and getting it to the side so that they can contain and help mitigate any kind of flames that

these are the things that, you know, robert putnam and ray oldenburg and coining third spaces was talking about places where americans can congregate, things that are good for democracy, of people just needing and having social lives and being parts of their community that's really dissipated and overwork and a debt identification with your profession has kind of stepped in to fill that void in a way that probably isn't good. it's fueling in many instances a loneliness epidemic. when you talk about american workers. yeah. and i mean, you writers are and and creative professionals and journalists are not alone. i mean, do you see that even now in your own work, the kind of over identification with your labor and the kind of volatility as well? it it's hard it's hard to paint a picture of, you know, of sadness for for journalists who get to travel around the country occasionally and and talk to a lot of interesting people. but there is a lot of precarity in the work. and what's troubling about that is we're convinced from on high, from our jobs, from the way that we talk about our work, tha

videos of things that have gone on and disarray apps guy, -- this ray apps guy, he's not been in jail. host: would you agree with robertt in today's washington times. january 6, 2021 with the gift that kept on giving to the democrats. at least they thought so until voters shocked them on november 5. but hope and pray that this electoral college certification today is conducted without any drama. caller: i think it will be fine. the thing of it is that all these files supposed to be released, when we see on tv the cop waiting people in, we see people walking through the halls with a lot of police, like toy soldiers watching people go past. the capitol chief of police was questioned in congress, and he admitted that trump had authorized troops. now there's things on the internet saying none of that is true, it has been debunked. so did trump authorized troops two days before? i've seen evidenced saying that he did. host: this is the front page of usa today. this time certification of the election is less messy for years after from supporters right at the capital. lawmakers expect calm. temporary fencing is back up, a spe

. >> ok, robert, a group with usgs, thank you so much for your insight this morning. we really appreciate it. >> thank you very much. they rayt. so the key word here being prepared for any sort of natural disaster that might come our way. yeah, that's just a sad, sad but true fact of existence. >> so that, yeah, we have a big concerns, of course, for the fire weather in southern california because, of course, the santa ana winds continue to rage and that tender is very dry. there's a red flag warning in effect through las angeles and ventura counties. this high confidence will continue at least through tuesday into wednesday for a very strong gusty santa ana winds along the santa ana wind corridors of those 2 counties and also very low relative humidity. and that's, of course, courtesy of the drought is a host of watches and warnings throughout the southern california area. in terms of high wind warnings and also fire weather advisories even down toward the san diego area. the smoke from the fires is pushed away from down toward baja, california and out to sea because of the continuing persistent santa ana winds are out of t