nbc bay area's velena jones is in westlake village with the latest. we are here in westlake village at the incident command post for the kenneth fire. that's in ventura county. you can see cal fires here, as well as ventura county fire department. we have law enforcement on hand as well. this is where they are managing the fire tonight. good news tonight. those evacuation orders, both in l.a. county, have now been reduced to evacuation warnings. evacuation warnings issued in ventura county have been lifted. so they got a handle on this fire very, very quickly. they had an immense amount of resources. but before those evacuation orders were lifted, there was severe concern in this community tonight. take a listen at what some of those evacuees had to say. it's the worst. the worst feeling, you know, it's our home. it's like everything is here. it's like some feeling like you can't explain. it's like everything is going to be gone. probably. the fire is under investigation. lapd is looking into the possibility that this was an arson and reportedly have

and then we will get good news. 13 million people under the red flag warnings, pyramid lake, westlake village to the north of pasadena. winds right now are higher up in the mountains. overnight the gusts are going to increase with low humidity. tomorrow they start to diminish. that is the good news. the bad news is that we have 24 more hours with improving conditions, but no matter with the winds dying down it is bone dry with only 10% of the rain they needed to get since octor. >> al roker, thank you very much. hundreds of police entering the resint of south korea's president yun, pushing through a crowd of supporters in a second attempt to arrest him. he has been holed up in the residence for weeks after being impeached for his attempt to impose martial law. the presidential security service has been protecting him. and special counsel jack smith's report on the election interference case against donald trump made public six days before inauguration. >> reporter: special counsel jack smith pulling back the curtain on the historic investigation that loomed over the president-elect. never got

million people under the red flag warnings, the particularly dangerous situation, pyramid lake, westlake village just north of pasadena. the winds right now are higher up in the mountains with up to 50 to 60 miles per hour wind gusts. overnight tonight the gusts are going to increase again with low humidity. tomorrow they will diminish. that is the good news. the bad news is that we have another 24 hours with the improving conditions. really bad news, no matter what, it is bone dry with only 10% of the rain they needed to get sincoctober. >> al roker, thank you very much. just developing, hundreds of police entering the residence of south korea's president yun in a second attempt to arrest him. yun has been holed up for weeks after being impeached for his attempt to impose martial law. the presidential securities service has been protecting him. tonight special counsel jack smith's report on the election interference case against president-elect trump finally made public six days before the inauguration. >> reporter: special counsel jack smith pulling back the curtain on the historic investigati

idea that this firestorm will pass, yesterday morning at 11:00 a.m., i was driving out in the westlake village area, which is, it is 50 miles away from downtown los angeles. i could see the plume from the pacific palisades fire. and, i looked over at my wife and i said this is going to be a terrible, terrible day. then fire after fire, it is really, it is a helpless feeling for a lot of people. and, you can see in that picture you are showing right now that palisades fire continues to grow and it is making its march into the malibu area. and, the wind, unfortunately, remains strong up in that area. >> once you saw the smoke, exactly, you are exactly right, once you saw the smoke and you read the wind gusts and realized how strong the winds were and how much, how easy it was to carry the emperor's and for stuff far afield to go up in flames, you just knew it was going to be bad. i am finding it hard to talk over this. it is scary. >> i have never seen wind like this. i have never seen the wind, have been here 30 years in los angeles. i have never seen the wind as strong and as a study and for s

tonight the address for the meeting is 5495 in westlake village. next i would like to introduce l.a. county sheriff robert luna. >> thank you. and good morning. so this morning our staff at the los angeles county sheriff department has increased to approximately 700 we continuously bring people in. we've shifted to 12 on 12 off shifts in patrol. and we will continue to reevaluate that as the needs come up just not in our area responsibility but the entire county of los angeles and our partner law enforcement agencies needs. just to reiterate our missions include hard road closures, traffic control, points roving security, welfare checks, evacuations as needed at the request of our partners at fire, and from what i'm told currently, we are not performing any evacuations but that can change at a minute's notice. and we're doing escorts for essential service needs, like animal recoveries, medications and things of that nature. now, i want to take a couple of minutes to explain this. so that hopefully everybody understands, an evacuation order verse wa

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