the boy's father is due in court tomorrow in compton, sara welch, ktla. 5 news. cyber mond come and gone. but if you're doing some online shopping any time this holiday season, it's important to be wary of scams. for more on how you can keep your information protected. kron four's justine waltman spoke with cybersecurity expert amendment with san jose state university. >>did you buy anything today? >>i did. actually. i did i but a few things. you know, i want to say this because my wife would get mad, but a few things. you know, i a lot. maybe some of them are for her. so we don't want to get into the details here. getting so many e-mails today from like every story of ever purchase something from this offering you some sort of discount. is it ok? >>just open up email that was sent to you and just start shopping or scammers trying to get in that way, too. that's a very good question. ab does the general for cyber security which is think before click. >>if it's too good to be true, too good to be true. the story here is because this is a very busy season. we're ta

that was sara welch reporting for us tonight in malibu. take a look at this. this is what the sky looked like and malibu this morning. we've seen a sky like that here in the bay area and the smoke from the fire burning the sky. orange firefighting helicopter was out there grabbing water to help douse this fire. lawrence. really a difficult situation going on down there shows you that the threat, you know, persists throughout the end of the here. yeah, especially southern california, right? they have not gotten any rain. at least we have that rain. yeah. i mean some heavy rainfall, but they have not gotten. now they've got those santa ana winds blowing. that's that dry, offshore wind. >> kicking in the southern california. that's pretty typical. but, boy, it's been very dry and look at the relative humidity. we're talking 13, 14%. we've had some strong, gusty offshore winds. some of those gusts as much as 60 miles an hour, expecting another night of very strong, gusty offshore winds throughout the night with the possibility of some of those gusts, 40 to 60 mile

sara welch reports from malibu with the latest. >>fire literally was surrounding >>they watched the night sky in malibu turn red, ran outside and looked and i just saw the orange glow. >>the franklin fire in malibu canyon ignited just before 11:00pm and quickly burn neighboring hillsides. yes, it was coming from every angle. you couldn't see a couple feet next to you could see the person next to rivers. red clay was at lead amas farm off sarah road. i instantly just turned around and started running down the street band of people's doors telling to get up because people are sleeping. neighbors alerted one another as they race to get out as flying embers from the wind-driven fire ignited rooftops in burned homes like this one is my friend's house. >>i've known for a long time and it's really sad. >>alec gillis shot this video of the terrifying moments of being caught in the middle of the end for now. >>it was up against the house is in our house. we had this like gas-powered water pump put our pool it just shoots high powered water.