a new year marked by tragedy. >> steve patterson, thank you. back at home the stage is set for a major test of republican unity with a possible showdown over who will serve as house speaker and how long an endorsement from president-elect trump will go. >> reporter: tonight mike johnson is hangnging on after president-elect trump's complete and total endorsement. >> i am humbled and honored to have president trump's endorsement for speaker again. >> reporter: hoping to avoid a repeat of the 22-day fight to replace kevin mccarthy last year. after barely avoiding a guest shutdown johnson's speaker ship is in jeopardy. that means johnson can only afford to lose one other republican vote. >> mobile he has the votes on friday. >> reporter: the president elect will need a funifiyed party to deliver on an ambitious agenda. >> reporter: there are other riffs in the gop. over the weekend trump sided with elon musk supporting visas to allowed skilled foreign workers to am come to the u.s. others are blasting the program saying it amounts to cheaper labor

thanks, steve patterson. our colleagues at our nbc station in los angeles knbc have been working nonstop for more than 24 hours covering this disaster. their deep connection to those communities reflected in so much of their coverage, including this moment when reporter michelle valles was on the air as neighbors battled flames consuming the home next door. >> this home next to it was on fire. they were making gains here. they were making gains. and then all of a sudden the winds picked up. and you can just see how it's fueling the these neighbors s desperately try to keep their home from catching fire. so you're just helpless as you watch these people doing probably -- you know, you put yourself in their situation and it's really dark and it's really fiery here. there's a lot of explosions. and there's just no help in sight. and you're just wondering when this is all going to end. >> riverside county. please stop. thank you so much. oh, my goodness. praise the lord. i mean, they're going to really douse this

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steve patterson zoins us. what more do we know?rter: the sheriff tonight saying there have been more reports of burglary, more reports of looting in fire zones like this. to combat that, more resources, more boots on the grou, including, we're hearing, the national guard expected to be active at both the eaton and pacific fire zones and yes, a curfew, if not implemented tonight, then tomorrow night starting at 6:00 p.m. every night to 6:00 a.m. with the goal being avoid further victimization of people offer suffering so much. lester. >> steve patterson, thank you. >>> former president jimmy carter was remembered for his kindness, compassion, and character as four of his successors were among those who gathered for his funeral at the national cathedral. here's kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: the passing of a president offers a rare moment of national reflection. stirring traditions played out today to honor the life of jimmy carter. ♪ amazing grace ♪ >> reporter: the 39th president brought together decades of his successors. their int

steve patterson is also in the front lines for us. steve, just pick up the baton from jacob soboroff and tell us what you are seeing and hearing. the first question i have and i do not mean to mother hen but how are you safe that is something on fire with the wind gusting. >> well, number one is the and 95. the worst danger for people that are not going to experience at home burning down, you can see the fire alarm still beeping. it is an eerie and haunting sound as this home burns down. we've been watching us all day and it started on the roof and the spread. the firefighters essentially as if they thought they put it out but it was still engulfed. i think we are seeing that because firefighters are spread so thin. this is still a triage operation so there is a much larger fire. perhaps you cannot see it but there is huge black smoke billowing behind even on the next street. these fires are street to street. i mentioned the n95 masks. they will suffer the long-term consequences of the smoke. what we are hearing is 191, that is the equ

. >> pacific palisades is where we find our steve patterson and steve. where exactly are you?ugh the lens of a camera that's pointing through a car. and we've seen so many of these these are included, by the way, in the structure count. right. so you have so many of these cars that were just abandoned and often obviously seeing the mementos and the people's pieces of people's lives in their homes is awful. and that is literally in every direction you can see. but one of the most haunting things is, is the cars that are left behind. some of these obviously left next to their homes, but others we've seen on roads on the way here that were just abandoned in the middle of the roadway, people had to pick up, leave everything in a flash, in a in an immediate need to get out of the area. and that's what we've seen. meanwhile, i mean, this neighborhood. i said it before, i'll say it again. it's gone. there's nothing where i'm standing in this entire subdivision that has survived. there are no birds chirping. there is no life. it is just gray and blacked out and burned out. and as we k

let's get out to nbc steve patterson in los angeles with the latest on the fire. steve?> reporter: good afternoon. the fire is still raging and this will not stop until this wind event that we are currently in ends, which will not be for quite some time. you can see the damage behind me. this is multiple homes that have been exposed to the fire and have gone up. we have watched some of these homes burned to the ground and we have seen the full structure and finally reduced to rubble. we are hoping this doesn't happen. firefighters putting water on this home and just a few maybe 20 or 30 minutes ago or so had just started to catch fire and the entire roof has been burned off. firefighters are doing the best they can to put as much water to doused this, so that they can put protection on the next home and you might see behind that home. that home is starting to catch and the results of this are all over the neighborhood like thi . we are right next to pasadena with the fire affecting pretty much all of these neighborhoods in this area and its block by block. you can see mu

. >> cbs of nbc steve patterson is on the ground for us. he is in altadena. eve, what's it like there? >> we're in pacific palisades now, chris. we've moved. and it looks as everyone has described it, like a war zone. this is a perfect example of what we've heard from jacob and katy, who grew up here. that these neighborhoods are gone. this neighborhood is gone. there is nothing left here. i don't know if you can see, you know, the level of destruction. we can't show it all to you. because it's all just wreckage. we can't walk through this. can't possibly hope to. but it's in every direction, as far as the eye can see. and you may be able to see just the images in the hills. i don't know how far deep you can see. but there are homes that are also fine. it's incredible to see. in fact, i walked this entire neighborhood. there is one home that survived, somehow, surrounded by dry brush. seemingly at random, it survives. meanwhile, the mementos, the pieces of people's lives, just laying the wreckage. we're pointing toward the sun. not sure how easy you can see th

when we have an opportunity, we will go to nbc, steve patterson is on the ground in altered enough, california, where firefighters have been battling the fire. let's go to steve. what is going on where you are? >> reporter: chris, situation still very dire. the winds have significantly died down, which has given firefighters an opportunity to make more inroads. the sun has risen on what is left of these neighborhoods. i mean, you walk around here, if i were to take you down there, all of this is on. these are all homes. this home, gone. you can see the records. this home, the car, the garage gone. you can see there is a little firefighting effort back here, these are neighbors trying to put some water down. i believe this is their home right here. where we were last time was a block over. all of this is happening in this area. has not stopped since we have been here this morning. these neighbors apparently putting water down on the ruins of this home. they of what it leaves of this house here to put protection on the home. that is so the fire does not jump or spread. you see the water pressure

steve patterson in altadena steve, thanks so much. let's go over to meteorologist angie lassen for a look at those winds today. >> angie, what are you seeing? >> hi there willie. we're seeing just what steve said, basically a fluctuation. so we've got these four main fires that we're watching. >> we are still dealing with that red flag warning, as steve said, 10 million people right now, though under that risk, it stretches from san luis obispo all the way down to the border. >> winds have, as expected, ramped up over the past 24 hours. so 45 to 65 mile per hour gusts is what we're expecting for the peak of today. but notice the areas that we're looking at, that particularly dangerous situation, wording that extra level of danger, because we do have those extremely critical fire conditions in these places. >> so parts of the san gabriel mountains, simi valley, san fernando valley, those are some of the spots stretching up into ventura, where we're still see that high risk for these kind of large explosives fires to grow at a rapid pac

joining us now live from altadena, california, is nbc news correspondent steve patterson. steve, thanks for joining us. >> talk to us about what you're seeing on the ground today. >> ali, it is destruction as far as the eye can see. we've seen it now for several days, more than a week. these fires have been burning. this, of course, is the eton fire. you can see the devastation. it is street after street. it is block after block. it is home after home. it covers this entire area. i could show you the next block and would look very similar to what we're seeing today. meanwhile, we are awaiting, as you mentioned, the possibility of more wind. we are under what's called a particularly particularly dangerous situation and designation from the national weather service that is meant to even denote something that is more severe than the red flag winds, than the santa ana winds that we've been predicting and seeing over the last few days. we've been in it for a little more than 24 hours, almost 48 hours now, actually, and we're waiting for sunrise and sunset. those are sort of the

steve patterson is reporting from altadena, california. and steve, what is the situation looking like at this hour? >> reporter: i mean, the word is apocalyptic. we try not to use that word to describe fires that are all too common in this state. but i can't think of anything else when you see a scene like this. this is not one home, not two homes, this is multiple homes, deep in, going back. you can see the ruins spread out. watch out there. debris is everywhere. this plot of this home, and then the home next to it. we've seen these homes, as they've had frames, as they were standing, and then fully engulfed, then on fire, then reduced to ruins. all of that happening within minutes. we were talking to andrea mitchell. i showed her, there's a home across the street that had burned to the ground. this home had started to catch -- watch your footing there -- this home had just started to catch. you saw the attic? that is a sign that a home is going to go. firefighters are putting this here. you were trying to put protection on this home, righ

. >> nbc news correspondent steve patterson is in pacific palisades and meteorologist bill karins is , let's start with you. what are you seeing? give us a sense where things stand right now. >> reporter: i wanted to show you this. you're seeing a fire hydrant gushing out water. this is one of the problems fireghters are dealing with. we don't know how this happened. as you know, firefighters need all the water pressure they can get. one of the things they'll do is try to seal this up. meanwhile, the fire fighting effort continues. hot spots is all over. this is the pacific palisades. it's been wrecked, destroyed. this neighborhood completed bombed out. it appears as if a bomb has gone off as officials have said. major fire fighting efforts continue. we see smoldering in every direction we look. there's another fire burning in the hills. fires are burning in los angeles. i have a fire captain here. your name so. >> adam. >> nice to meet you, sir. how is the fire fighting effort going? >> right now it's still red flag conditions. we have active firefighters throughout the pacific palis

our coverage twins with nbc news correspondent steve patterson in pacific palisades, california. meteorologist bill karins here with me in studio. steve, let's start with you out there. pacific palisades is one of the hardest hit communities. that is clear. what are you hearing from people on the ground there today? >> reporter: the sentiment like a bomb went off is absolutely true. you are looking at the frame of a car that has been almost melted into the ground here. this neighborhood as we have been saying and repeated all day long is essentially gone. there is fairly a homestanding. there is one home out of the dozens in the neighborhood that we are in. we spoke to one of the homeowners not too long ago in this neighborhood. he didn't have a chance to grab anything. had to leave everything and go and was coming back to find absolutely nothing left. it is heartbreaking here for so many who are returning to just ash and rubble. this neighborhood again, i mean, we walked through. there is barely anything. you don't hear -- eerie, there is no sign of life. you don't hear birds ch

nbc's steve patterson joins us now from pacific palisades, california. hearing from officials there? i know they just had a news conference. what did you learned? >> they did. yeah. >> and one of the one of the most heartening things to hear is that the wind event that we've been in, the santa ana winds, the red flag winds set to expire later on this afternoon. that is a great sign for firefighters that are doing all they can to knock out so-called hotspots, which create pockets of embers which could further carry this fire to a new location, to a new front, or extend the fire that we're already in. you can see, though, the devastation on the ground in an area like this, there's not much left to burn. this is a neighborhood where almost literally everything is gone. every home that we've seen, you should be able to see. you shouldn't be able to see clear back here, because there should be lots of homes and rows of homes all gone. cars melted down to the studs. the aluminum hubcaps just melted into the ground. all gone. you know, all that's left are chimne

steve patterson, thank you. well, despite what we're hearing about those whipping santa ana winds dying down a bit today, red flag warnings are indeed still up for 17 million people across southern california. nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with us. bill, what conditions are firefighters confronting? >> it depends where they are. >> you know, the topography around los angeles is so diverse. you know, if you're in downtown la, there's like no wind. >> if you're up in the hills, there are some gusty winds we're dealing with. and you saw the pictures there. we still have spot fires that are happening. >> the difference now is that we can get the aircraft into these. >> you know, when we had the horrific windstorm in the middle of the night when we lost all these thousands of structures, you know, they had no chance because they couldn't fly. it was too windy. that's not the case now. so the 17 million people at risk. and what you can see here is that we have isolated spots. that is windy. notice the top of m

>> steve patterson, thank you.re at home the stage now set for a major test of republican unity heading into 2025 with a possible showdown over who should serve as house speaker and how far the new endorsement from president-elect trump will go. gabe gutierrez is covering the transition tonight. tonight, house speaker mike johnson is hanging on after president-elect trump's complete and total endorsement. >> i am humbled and honored to have presidentrump's endorsement for speaker again. he's ping to avoid a repeat of the chaotic 22-day fight to replace kevin mccarthy last year. now after barely avoiding a government shutdown, johnson's speakership is in jeopardy. his majority in the house has been razor thin. one said he won't back him as speaker. that means johnson can only afford to lose one other republican vote. it is not clear whether trump's endorsement will prevent more defections. >> reit now, i don't believe he has votes on friday. >> he'll need a unified republican party to quickly deliver on an ambitious

nbc's steve patterson is on the fire lines and has this report.ls are not calling this one of the most destructive, if not the most destructive, wildfire in the history of los angeles. now, 17,000 plus acres still 0% contained. we're still seeing wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour. but the major wind event, the one that realllly pushed all of the flames on top of people's homes, sent embers tumbling to new spot fires, creating more problems and destroying a large part of the pacific palisades where i'm standing. that wind event has mostly now laid down and ended, which has given firefighters. it has given officials this precious window where they can start putting air drops on the fire, which hopefully will lead to the major operation ending. and they can start cleanup. they can start the reckoning of the devastation which you see behind me, which is absolutely immense. thousands and thousands of structures and homes destroyed, at least 2000 between all of the fires altogether. thankfully, a lot of these spot fires, a lot of the sort of the minor f

prevent the fires from spreading any further, let's bring into our coverage nbc news correspondent steve pattersonell us what you're seeing and hearing. >> this donation site is like so many we've seen outside the ruins of somebody's home, unfortunately. look at this. this is the guy named jose. just met him. >> thankfully, though, this is his garage with these high winds, there's obviously worried about what could happen later on tonight. in the meantime, look at this. these are donations that he's collected after he found out his home survived. wanted to do something. and it's water. it's baby formula. it's clothing, it's food. it's canned goods. it's everything. and it's all throughout this entirety of the backyard of his house, stretching all the way into the front yard of his house. and here's jose. jose. hello. how are you, man? how's it going? good. >> how did this happen? i mean, did you expect this outpouring of support to happen when you started asking for donations? >> no, we never expected this much to pour in. >> honestly, we were surprised with the community support. it was not just

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we begin with steve patterson.talk to us in the situation near pasadena.. >> reporter: the situation is dire. the winds have picked up after a little bit of a lull. there is a fully engulfed home in this neighborhood on just about every street we have seen. no rematter where you go. these firefighters arriving on scene moments ago. they are trying to protect the homes that are close by. this home, we watched literally just melt to the ground momentso ago. there was a standing structure as you see. it is now just molten fire. there is an off duty firefighter who lives here. we have watched him the last tc half hour or so try to put as much protection as he can on this home to try to save it in case an engine does stop by. we nejust in the last few minut watched that happen. firefighters now with foam. what you see here just to save t what's left here. meanwhile, there are homes, dozens of homes that we have seen. in this neighborhood reduced to rubble and ash. if not severely damaged or fully engulfed on fire. you c

steve patterson spoke to a resident who just found out her home had burned down. >> is this your homeis? >> 10 minutes ago. >> i'm so sorry. we watched neighbors try and put water on that. >> i know, everybody got out safe and that's all that matters. we can rebuild. >> we can rebuild, a spirit that we are hearing from many people that reporters have discussed and contacted sometimes on camera and sometimes off, these are tough scenes. a malibu resident becoming emotional discussing the loss of their home. >> our worst fear happened, that's all right, we are survivors, we will build another home. my partners photographs, my grandpa's antique chest and all of that stuff. >> this is what we are hearing, the spirit of resilience over and over even as people simultaneously process the grief, the loss, items that are sentimental, sometimes when that goes, they can't be replaced, even as people continuously tell reporters what matters is the survival of humans, not the stuff, the water system pushed to the extreme, air quality at hazardous levels, the pacific palisades are saying that the w

joining us now, nbc news correspondent steve patterson who is also here in the palisades, steve, where exactly are you? >> we are close by, and as you can imagine, it must -- i haven't seen your shot, katy, but i can't imagine it looks any better than where you are. nothing is a great way to describe it, right? like, i mean, all of this meant something to someone, but all of it is gone. there are no signs of life, and the reason why we're here and you're there is to show just how many neighborhoods like this there are. this goes on really, as far as the eye can see. you shouldn't be able to see that far. there should be three, four, five houses, all of them have been destroyed. seeing the mementos and people's lives here, this is staggering. right? you see the fire hose. or just a garden hose. somebody tried to do the best they could to put protection on it. some greenery exists somewhere. not a bird chirping, no sign of life. it's very eerie. it feels like something dramatic, like a bomb has gone off. it's what it feels like too. thankfully, we are also hearing aircraft above, and i k

back to you. >> steve patterson in south korea.ed aircraft accident investigator who spent over 45 years in aviation safety. it's good to have you. that piece talking about the sort of bird strike three. there is some i guess circumstantial evidence of this, some reporting but nothing confirmed so far. you said that bird strikes usually don't bring down airplanes like that. explained that. >> good evening chris. it's exceedingly rare to have bird strikes bring down commercial airliners. of course the most famous one is the sully sullenberger miracle on the hudson. that was a landing on the hudson river. no one died or was injured in that. but there was a rare instance in which there were several birds going into both engines, rendering the airplane as a glider, and there was an accident in 1995 involving a four engine air force aircraft in anchorage, alaska, which took bird strikes on all four engines and 25 people died in that. so it's very rare but apparently in this one we could have yet another case of -- albeit rare -- where b

steve patterson is in altadena, you've been speaking with a lot of volunteers who are trying to helpe of the ories you've been hearing? >> i have, it's really tough here. this is my first time back in altadena since the fires broke out and you can see some of the devastation, it's unbelievable, we won't keep showing this because obviously it's immense and it covers the entire neighborhood. there was just a spot fire up the road, still an active fire zone but this guy, his name is josi, this is his family home, his garage burned down but not his own. he opened his home up to donations and look at this, guys, this is all clothing, food donations, water, toys, you name it, anything that anybody in the neighborhood convened, people opened up their hearts, that's what we've seen all over this community. he has so many donations now that he is canceling people bringing stuff in, he needs people to take the step because there's so much of it. we've been watching people try and organize it. this is just the last few days, people with their own homes who have burned down, all of this, and peo

steve patterson, thank you again for your extraordinary reporting on the ground there for us. about everyone affected by these wildfires. we'll talk to an official from malibu, california, one of the hardest hit towns. >> donald trump plans to reshape the u.s. government as we know it. >> democrats have wasted no time in laying the groundwork to fight the incoming trump administration. >> the conversation right now is like, oh, we have to win back working class voters. but who are people talking about? >> it's no surprise that this is a time of reflection and reassessment for democrats. >> donald trump wants a presidential cabinet full of loyalists that are going to push through his extreme agenda. >> don't miss the weekends, >> don't miss the weekends, struggling with the highs and lows of bipolar 1? ask about vraylar. because you are greater than your bipolar 1 and you can help take control of your symptoms, with vraylar. some medicines only treat the lows or highs. vraylar treats depressive, acute manic, and mixed episodes of bipolar 1 in adults. proven full-spectrum relief

steve patterson, thank you for your just tireless reporting out there. we appreciate you and we appreciate you at home. that's going to wrap up this hour of special coverage. >> i'm ana cabrera i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. >> and right now on andrea mitchell reports. we're following three breaking stories today. history made in manhattan just ten days before his return to the oval office, donald trump becomes the first former president to be sentenced on a felony conviction. >> so while one can argue that the trial itself was in many respects somewhat ordinary, the same cannot be said about the circumstances surrounding this sentencing, and that is because of the office he once occupied and which you will soon occupy again. >> plus the round the clock battle against raging wildfires in los angeles county, continuing with at least ten people dead, millions impacted, entire communities reduced to ash and the future of the massively popular social media platform tiktok. re

and that was nbc's steve patterson yesterday talking to a woman in california who just found out thating wild fires going across l.a. county. more than 100,000 people have been forced to evacuate because of the fast-moving flames there. so far officials say more than 2,000 homes, businesses and other buildings have been damaged or destroyed and at least five people are dead. we'll have more on that just ahead. >>> but first, here in washington, former president jimmy carter will be laid to rest today following a week of state funeral events both here in d.c. and in his home state of georgia. president biden has declared today as a national day of mourning. the 39th president has been honored by lying in state in the u.s. capital rotunda which is expected to end at 7:00 a.m. today. then at 9:00 a.m. a.m.:00 a.m., pekt will depart for washington cathedral. president bide listen deliver a eulogy in honor of carter, something he asked of biden before his death. in attendance will be first lady jill biden as well as vice president kamala harris and second gentleman doug emhoff. all living

>> my heart was breaking for that woman that steve patterson was interviewing.in that home, check her home insurance policy. it may be in the pacific palisades, a bunch of those policies have been not renewed, and so they have looked to california as the insurer of last resort, the fair plan, it's called. this will be a huge test of california's fair plan because some of these homeowners insurance companies have either not renewed or they're not writing new policies, so there are people there who are probably uninsured or who have bare basic insurance, and the rebuilding cost is really hard to predict what the rebuilding costs are going to be. used to be you would make a claim based on what it cost to build the house originally or what its fair market value was or what you thought the replacement value was looking at historical table. now they have to look forward and say in a year, what will it cost to rebuild this because that's how long it will take, and there is inflation in this part of the economy. >> talk about the role the federal government could play h

picking up our breaking news coverage with nbc news correspondent steve patterson on the ground in pacificisades california. just tell us what you are seeing and hearing today from the folks who you are talking to. >> reporter: it's utter devastation here, nicole and apologies, communications as you might imagine our rough or limited with everything going on behind us. look at this. maybe we speculate this three- story home, now it's just steel pillars. most of what unfortunately we can bring you today is what's left of this neighborhood and there is almost absolutely nothing. not a bird is chirping, not a bug is crawling, you can see some of the most haunting sites are what people had to leave behind. pick up everything and go, the aluminum melted to the ground because of how hot this was. we've seen a few fire safes, not sure if anything survived in there and it's really heartbreaking to see the mementos that people unfortunately had to leave behind. this entire neighborhood blackened. again not a house that we've seen in this neighborhood is standing save for one house that's just aroun