. >> reporter: gigi valdez has been visiting albany bulb for years. she gets some exercise, fresh air, and an opportunity to let her dogs burn off some energy. it's one of her favorite ways to get out in nature, that is, until she heard that there are elevated levels of radiation. >> to be honest, it's always in the back of my mind, the health. >> reporter: she was so concerned she temporarily changed her habits. >> for a while i didn't come, but i mean it's difficult to stay inside. you want to go out in nature. >> reporter: albany bulb was created in the 1960s by filling in a portion of the bay with landfill and it was used as a landfill until the 1980s. the state ordered testing after documents showed from 1960 to 1971 a former richmond chemical plant dumped 11 tons of waste around the site. that testing found ten areas in the park with elevated levels of radiation. valdez says she didn't know the right way to proceed after hearing the news. >> i think that it's a lot of lack of information, not enough information being put out to inform the public

gustavo valdez, cnn, pacific palisades, california. >> right now, a curfew is in place for many of the areas under evacuation orders in los angeles county. it's a move to aid police in cracking down on looters looking to burglarize homes. law enforcement say they've already made several arrests in the fire aftermath, and they warn jail time and hefty fines await those thinking about burglarizing those empty homes. >> we've made seven arrests just in the last two days, and we even made arrests of two individuals that were actually posing as firefighters coming in and out of houses. so we're paying very, very close attention to everybody that's coming. >> people posing as firemen. well, a congressman from california tells cnn how concerned he is with people not following the directions of authorities. >> we are in the middle of a serious emergency, and i just heard from law enforcement was, please, folks need to listen to evacuate. and the folks that are choosing to not take these direct, these direct orders that are choosing to stay in their homes are not just endangering themselves, th

and it goes to asian has come from a very unusual court valdez on goal. many uh the meetings that i've been held in on going on in the month of november of 2020 full getting the head of stage summit in english in tons. and yeah, it was a not to the is as the president of global she shifted the did not attend because she did not want to meet. it has been done. and of course has been forgotten me. it was all ready to meet. they thought it would be negotiated, but cindy office as a web presence, and one of the things that was raised during that meeting is that there is need to support the ongoing initiative. so you sort of p a now that a number of things have been accepted, that there is a conflict which is of a diverse bathing kind. and that there is need to ensure that that conflict is brought to an end. and that will require, among other things, that the forces that are being supported by one that as it is now documented by the u. n. and the forces that seem to be the cussing instability and that's part of the area ought to be brought to the negotiation t

cbs' nicole valdez joins us with the latest from new orleans. nicole, what's the mood like in the city this morning? >> reporter: michael, good morning. well, it's quiet. a much different environment here from the usually packed french quarter, just 24 hours ago or so, there were thousands of people celebrating the start of a new year here. now, this is the site where so many remember the carnage of the attack that killed 15 people and hurt nearly 40 others. right now, federal investigators called this attack deliberate, thought-out, and say they are investigating it as an act of terror. >> we have dozens of people that got hit by this car. >> reporter: frantic messages from first responders in new orleans, just moments after a man drove his truck through crowds celebrating the new year on the city's famed bourbon street. >> just heart this squeal. and, like, the rev of an engine and a huge, loud impact. and then, people screaming. >> reporter: the fbi has identified the attacker as 42-year-old army veteran shamsud din jabbar, a u.s. citizen tha

gustavo valdez, cnn, pacific palisades, california tens of thousands of california residents have beenorced to flee this week in a haze of uncertainty, and many have been left to agonize over when to leave and what to take with them. >> here's how one family is processing the trauma of losing their entire home. >> the emotions. they are really ebbing and flowing. uh, you know, we have moments where we are working really hard to just get our lives back in order. so we're very task oriented and going through lists and calling people and checking with insurance. and so you can just sort of work. and then the moments where we have conversations with our three year old and she, she asks if she'll see her lovies again. it's it's hard, but my phone buzzed and said, oh, my, the burglar alarm in my house had gone off and at first i thought it was somebody taking advantage of the evacuation to to burgle my house. >> and, uh, then it dawned on me, that's probably the best case scenario of why alarms are going off. and then all successive, uh, sensors in our house tripped within four minutes. and

cnn's gustavo valdez has more. >> california is getting a little help from our neighbors north and souththe border with both canada and mexico, sending firefighters to assist local efforts to control the fires in the metropolitan los angeles area. and it's going to be needed help because saturday, the palisades fire began to extend close to another neighborhood. thankfully, the winds were not strong enough and firefighters were able to get a handle on them. however, fire officials warned that the situation could worsen in the next few days as the winds are expected to pick up again. not as strong as what we saw at the beginning of the week when the fires started. but still, it is another reason to be concerned for these fire departments that have come from across the state and other the places in the united states to try to help these firefighters are certainly doing their best to keep the flames under control. now, for the residents who are trying to come back to the neighborhoods affected has been frustrating. the order of evacuations remain in place, which means they cannot come to se

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and to look back at the benefits shaped the most colon valdez people's only can we saw on the baffled building crane. just as t edwards keeps with the lights is pointing in solely russia with me to made miss the . this is all the international life on most of those changes. it was good to have your companies. we bring you, your local news updates plenty to get through this january, the 2nd of what we're going to stop in the us. and this is because it's a merge that the suspect in the new orleans call rhyming. the claim that is 15 lives had posted videos online, suggesting that he was inspired by isis president joe biden has confirmed that probable link following the deputy attack. your hours reported to be the mere hours before the attack. he posed the videos on social media indicating, is inspired by isis, especially desire to kill, desire to kill, or the guys flag was found this vehicle. would you read it to conduct this attack? the? well, the pickup truck smashed into new york travelers. this was a long story blocks of a popular downtown street with shots and allegedly thing 5 into

mean, it's like, you know, one minute he was talking about the h one, b visas, getting very agitated valdez. then he's moved on to the issue of the grooming games in the u. k. very accurate about that. now he's moved on to the fall of the l. a. files. if somebody was just, you know, he has strong views, uses this back into an advocate which they really hate him for. i mean, there's a lot of policy differences we don't now obviously don't have time for that, but you need any, what they hate him for is that he's a free agent. and neo liberalism, no individual has that except for he loves musk for some reason. in the he's such an anomaly and he came up through a system that suppressed opinions wanted a unit, a uniform belief, and in this man just goes on his own platform and says, what he thinks is one of the very few. sorry, we run out of time we, i want to take my guess in budapest and assemble. and of course i want to thank of yours are watching us the largest the next time. remember across apples, the the take a fresh look around his life. kaleidoscopic isn't just a shifted reality distort

tests of israeli soldiers and civilians and to look back at the events that shaped the most colon valdez, the potomac. we saw on the battlefield in ukraine just as k. i was given the green light to strike the inside. russia with nato made me start the coming t line for most good. this is dorothy into nashville. we've got you covered with all the news that you need to know. thanks very much for joining in what we're going to sauce in the us now, where it so much a suspect in the new orleans call rhyming but claimed the lives of at least 15 people had posted videos online, suggesting that he was inspired by isis president joe biden has confirmed that probable link following the deputy attack. a deputy i was reported to be the mere hours before they attacked the post. the videos on social media indicating, is inspired by isis, especially desire to kill, desire to kill. you guys flag was found this vehicle. would you read it to conduct this attack? the the pickup truck smashed into new revellers long sweet blocks to the popular downtown streets and shots, allegedly being fired into the crowd

above the 2 who bully bully the people who who is not of this of the valdez. >> they they should and shouldn't do that. if you or anyone, you know, is struggling with suicidal thoughts, you're encouraged to call the national suicide prevention lifeline at 9, 8, 8, reporting in the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. >> well, about 2 hours after that incident, another shooting broke out and hurting 3 people in soma. it happened around 10 yesterday morning on bryant between 6 and 7 street near san francisco. police say they later arrested a woman on high street about 5 minutes away. we don't have any word yet on the victim's condition. and san francisco's incoming mayor daniel lurie has created a new role in his administration, is called the chief of public safety. mayor, let naming former sfpd commander paul. yep. to that new position lori's office says the safety chiefs primary focus. it's going to be a neiohborhood safety street behavior, emergency preparedness and response. >> you know, we're all of sleeves gets worked coordinate departments. you know, start with the fentanyl c

above the 2 who bully bully the people who who is not of this of the valdez. >> they they should and shouldn't do that. if you or anyone, you know, is struggling with suicidal thoughts, you're encouraged to call the national suicide prevention lifeline at 9, 8, 8, reporting in the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. >> 2 hours after that shooting, there was another shooting in the city that left 3 people hurt. it happened around 10 o'clock yesterday morning on bryant street between 6th and 7th in selma. police say they arrested a woman and hyde street in connection with the shooting. no word on the victim's conditions this afternoon. there's a new effort in santa clara county to remove homeless encampments along waterways. the valley water district estimates about 700 people are living in encampments on district property. and starting today, the district is going to put each of these camps into either a high or low priority category while also launching an educational campaign to try and let people know where they stand. >> we don't want to nor do we have the ability to just go o

. >> i'm gustavo valdez in pacific palisades, california, and this is cnn. >> in the palisades, we werea deadlock and the fire came down on my car on both sides. >> and the firemen started running in between all of the cars, screaming, get out and run! get out and run! >> we were just stuck in four hours of traffic, not knowing which way to go. no one knew which way you should go because everyone was just being evacuated different ways. it was just a panic. >> yeah. where's lapd and where's everybody? there's no one out here directing traffic. this is getting really bad. >> the mayor will be on the ground shortly, very shortly this morning. and engaged. >> the mayor is facing criticism from people in the city in l.a. that she was out of the country when the fires broke out. given that the weather service has been warning for days that this could be coming, los angeles mayor karen bass, who was overseas for the inauguration of ghana's new president, returned to l.a. on wednesday afternoon after the fires were already out of control. >> by that point, more than 100,000 people had to evacu

. >> i'm gustavo valdez in pacific palisades, california, and this is cnn. >> this week, meta ceo markuckerberg announced an end to the company's u.s. fact checking program, which used third party moderators to weed out misinformation on facebook, instagram and threads. these sites will now rely on users to correct misinformation and disinformation. zuckerberg attributed the decision in part to the reelection of president donald trump, citing a cultural tipping point in favor of freedom of speech. my next guest is very concerned about the move. maria ressa is a filipino journalist and the founder of a digital news site there called rappler. ressa won the nobel prize for her efforts to preserve freedom of speech and to fight disinformation. maria, welcome. in your experience, what role has fact checking played in, you know, in dealing with stuff that appears on facebook give us like an example or two. so we understand what we are, what what fact checking is doing in your view. >> sure. >> you know, i was concerned and lived through the harms that facebook could that facebook created. on

. >> i'm gustavo valdez in pacific palisades, california, and this is cnn. >> closed captioning broughto you by guilt visit guilt. com today for up to 70% off designer brands. >> guilt has a designers that get your heart racing at insider prices new everyday. hurry, they'll be gone in a flash. designer sales at up to 70% off shop gilt.com today. >> robert f kennedy jr., whom donald trump has tapped for health and human services secretary, has vowed to make america healthy again. but my next guest actually says that there is a mysterious health wave breaking out across the united states. derek thompson is a staff writer at the atlantic and hosts the plain english podcast. uh, derek, welcome. so let me start out by asking you the statistic everybody talks about when talking about american health care is we have the most expensive system in the world, and it delivers very bad outcomes that our life expectancy in particular looks very bad compared to, say, europe and japan. but you say that masks an important set of causes of death. explain what you mean. >> well, i think the american healt

cbs news nicole valdez is in new orleans this morning where officials believe he may not have been alone in planning this attack. >> reporter: it's quiet on bourbon street. a much different environment than the usually packed french quarter. 24 hours ago, there were thousands of people here celebrating the start of the new year. now this is sadly a site where so many remember the carnage of the attack that killed those 15 people and hurt nearly 40 others. and the attack federal investigators call deliberate, thought out, and are now investigating as an act of terror. >> we have dozens of people that got hit by this car. >> reporter: frantic messages from first responders in new orleans, just moments after a man drove his truck through crowds celebrating new year on the city's famed bourbon street. >> just heard this squeal and like the rev of the engine and then the huge loud impact. >> reporter: the fbi has identified the attacker as 42-year-old army veteran sham jabar a u.s. citizen who lived in texas. agents say after he rammed the crowd, the suspect exited what appeared to be a rente

above the 2 who bully bully the people who who is not of this of the valdez. >> they they should and shouldn't do that. if you or anyone, you know, is struggling with suicidal thoughts, you're encouraged to call the national suicide prevention lifeline at 9, 8, 8, reporting in the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. >> about 2 hours after that incident, another shooting happened, injuring 3 people in the city, soma neighborhood. this happened around 10 yesterday morning. i'm brian between 6 and 7 police later arrested the woman on height about 5 minutes later. no word yet on the victims. conditions. and the south lee, the man who was hit by car in san jose last month died from his injuries. san jose police say they hit happened the evening of and the area of quito drive near flooding or avenue when the males on a cross walk. he was taken to the hospital for life-threatening injuries but died over the weekend. this was the 48th traffic death of 2024. >> already costing you more to future this year. pg e customers are facing a new rate hike. >> in the new year, president kerman has

. >> i'm gustavo valdez at the carter center and this is cnn. >> we were running down.ou could see palm trees just like random palm trees on fire. so i'm sure leaves are burning and falling down. and it's it's literally apocalyptic. >> mandatory evacuations are expanding in los angeles from what some residents are calling an apocalyptic scene. thousands of people have fled from two wildfires currently burning and growing by the minute. california governor gavin newsom says hundreds of personnel are working to stop the fires using airplanes, helicopters and more. some roads had to be cleared with bulldozers as fleeing residents abandoned their cars. the los angeles fire department is working around the clock to try to contain the blaze, but their chief says they have to operate within safe conditions. >> we are going to take advantage of of the lower temperatures at night, but with increased wind speed, aerial firefighting becomes more dangerous. there is a cutoff mile per hour wind at which we will not operate at night. flying during the night is more dangerous than fly

. >> i'm gustavo valdez in pacific palisades, california, and this is cnn. >> right now crews in losangeles are racing to try to contain the wildfires, as very strong winds are returning to southern california. cnn's anderson cooper just joined a team of firefighters knocking out various hotspots in the brentwood heights area of los angeles. anderson. >> wolf, i'm in the brentwood heights area. >> down there is mandeville canyon fire moved through here on saturday. so there's no active fire right now. there's no smoke right now, but crews are doing incredibly important work today. this is a these are about 20 firefighters from cal fire. they are going over every inch of ground on this this mountainside. they're looking for any hidden heat underneath the ground. um, there can be hotspots that are not visible just looking at this. so they're literally kicking up soil. they're using rakes. they're using shovels. shovels. you can see there's a guy using a pickax right now digging a hole, looking for an area that might be a hotspot. as you can see, there's so much charcoal, so much debris

. >> i'm gustavo valdez in pacific palisades, california, and this is cnn. >> closed captioning brought to you by book.com. >> if you or a loved one have mesothelioma, we'll send you a free book to answer questions you may have. >> call now and we'll come to you. >> 800 821 4000. >> welcome back everyone. you're taking a live look right now over los angeles county. and we just learned minutes ago that firefighters are making progress on battling the flames. the palisades fire is now 11% contained. the eaton fire 15%. so there is some progress being made, although it is a bit slow right now. firefighters got a brief break in high winds, but those are expected to pick up back up later today. we are, of course, continuing to track the latest developments and we will bring them to you here on cnn. we also should mention that there have been some new evacuation orders. we learned that the getty center, that massive museum complex in brentwood overlooking the city of l.a., has been evacuated and emergency personnel is staying behind. and also, as you were mentioning earlier, ucla also telling

. >> i'm gustavo valdez in pacific palisades, california, and this is cnn. >> the situation across muchlos angeles county remains dire as multiple fires there remain far from contained. moments ago, we learned very dangerous weather conditions are expected to continue into next week. this is coming from the national weather service. however, during these dire moments, we're also seeing some of the best that humanity can offer. the planes that you are seeing in those other clips, right there, carrying more heroes. firefighters from mexico who will be joining the fight in california, governor gavin newsom just posted that video on x. and for the latest in all of this, let's go to cnn's lee waldman, who is joining us now from pacific palisades. lee. of course, that community simply devastated by the palisades fire that just ripped through there so quickly and caused such devastation. what can you tell us? >> jessica? i think the help that's coming from mexico is so well needed. there's already 14,000 troops on the ground here trying to fight this fire. and you can see what this fire has do

. >> i'm gustavo valdez in pacific palisades, california, and this is cnn. >> authorities say about 88,000 county residents are under evacuation orders. another 84,000 are under evacuation warnings. our gary tuchman just met an evacuee and a widower who has now lost almost everything, including cherished memories of his nearly 70 years of marriage. here's gary's report. >> the day after eric bach turned 93 years old, he had to evacuate his pacific palisades house. >> as fire approached. and this is what happened to his home. >> it's just a shock. it's hard. >> i'm so sorry for what you're dealing with. >> my wife and i love the house. you know. we just loved it. what makes this so much harder for eric is that his wife passed away two and a half years ago at the age of 90. >> your wife rose? >> yes. how long were you married? for? 67 years. 67 years. wonderful years. eric and rose met in their homeland of germany when they were 17 years old. they both moved to america in the 1950s and got married. they moved into their dream house almost exactly 60 years ago. we were lucky we were still tog

. >> i'm gustavo valdez in pacific palisades, california, and this is cnn. >> closed captioning broughtou by book.com. >> if you or a loved one have mesothelioma, we'll send you a free book. >> answer questions you may have. >> call now and we'll come to you. >> 808 two one 4000. >> and we are back with our coverage of the los angeles wildfires right now at the foot of the santa monica mountains. palisades fire. and the destruction up right behind us here with the crews that are staging that response to fight that ongoing, raging palisades fire right behind us. as that happens, these houses are razed, schools are razed, communities are completely disbanded and destroyed. ross zabo is the wellness director at the geffen academy at ucla. ucla, by the way, has been warned they could be on evacuation. that is the the touchy touch and go nature of this situation as they're fighting this fire right now. ross, though you are not only living this yourself, but in this moment where tomorrow is going to be monday and children are going to go back to school, some of them, and i want to talk about

. >> i'm gustavo valdez in pacific palisades, california, and this is cnn. >> closed captioning brought to you by guilt. visit gilt.com today for up to 70% off designer brands. >> guilt has the designers that get your heart racing. at insider prices. new. everyday. hurry! they'll be gone in a flash. designer sales at up to 70% off. shop gilt.com today. >> powerful winds are set to return to los angeles county tonight. officials here are telling us there was of very significant concern that the wildfires, which are currently raging, will continue to grow and could spread, and then it's just not a matter of moving quickly down a mountain. it's also a matter of embers flying and igniting entire neighborhoods, as happened already in this particular neighborhood within the palisades fire. zeke lander joins me now. he ran fire mapping crews for 20 years. also a qualified california burn boss, as they call them. and zeke, when you look at what we are seeing right now, the unprecedented nature of it as firefighters on the front lines are describing it, why do you think so many were caught off g

. >> i'm gustavo valdez at the carter center, and this is cnn. >> you're looking at more the people who have been mourning today. and happening today, the next phase of the funeral services for former president jimmy carter. in just a few hours, his casket will be flown from georgia to washington, d.c., where he will lie in state at the u.s. capitol rotunda. there, lawmakers and the public will be able to pay their final respects to the 39th president. cnn's eva mccann joins us now from the carter presidential center in atlanta. i know you've been watching a stream of people come through over the last two days. and now this is the next part of a country saying goodbye to one of its presidents. all right, we ready to head out sara, it has been remarkable to see the last couple of days. >> all of the people come from across the region to share why they felt compelled to pay their respects to the late president. the gates are closed now because we're entering another chapter in the tributes here with president carter's body moving to washington, d.c. at 11 a.m., there is going to be a depa

. >> i'm gustavo valdez at the carter center and this is cnn. >> the president elect said today thatone of the first things he is going to do within minutes of taking office pardon people who are convicted for storming the capitol on january 6th. today, he made clear that those serving time for assaulting police officers are also under consideration. >> people that were doing some bad things weren't prosecuted, and people that didn't even walk into the building are in jail right now. so we'll be looking at the whole thing, but i'll be making major pardons. you know, there was never charges of insurrection or anything like that. but if there were, this would be the only insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionists with not one gun. >> of course, multiple people were on the capitol grounds who were convicted of having handguns on them. but this is all coming with trump's inauguration now less than two weeks away, as it's still unclear exactly who. of those, more than 1000 people who have been charged would be granted a pardon. >> will you pardon anyone who attacked