00:00A glimpse of daylight here. Have you noticed an increase of crews now out at this early hour?
00:07All right. Well, good morning, ladies. We are live from the PCH Command Center. This is really
00:11the heartbeat of the operation here, at least over the last week or so, specifically catering
00:17to the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. This morning, crews started coming out about five
00:22o'clock Pacific Standard Time here, and it has been nonstop ever since. Crews, by the way,
00:27not only coming in from California, but all over the country and the world, for that matter,
00:33many of them working very hard to come up with plans to cater to not only the hardest hit areas
00:39here, but we know that there are a number of other areas that are widely affected, too,
00:44across the Los Angeles region. Take a look at this video on your screen. This was some of the
00:48damage that we were able to survey yesterday when we first got boots on the ground here.
00:53Hundreds of structures, including homes, schools, and businesses, unfortunately,
00:58have been completely destroyed, leaving entire communities really unrecognizable here. Now,
01:04smoke continues to blanket the region. That's a whole other separate issue in and of itself, right?
01:09Air quality, to go along with it, is not ideal at the moment, and crews continue to report those
01:15downed power lines and ruptured gas lines. The other issue is hot spots or flare-ups,
01:21and that is what we noticed constantly yesterday. Crews say it is so important
01:26to monitor those right now due to the red flag warning. Take a listen.
01:32These are large, beautiful homes, and with these homes, because they're so big, you can see some
01:37of them have these subterranean garages or basements, and when they burn, they kind of
01:41pack pancake down, and there's a lot of hot embers and stuff, so even though the fire looks like it's
01:45out, every once in a while, you'll see a hot spot come up. Our job is to go up and down the street,
01:50go from house to house. If we see something, really hit it hard, watch it for a little while,
01:54and go to the next one. Over 150,000 residents remain under mandatory evacuation orders across
02:02Los Angeles County, and a big issue in the coming days will be repopulation. The death toll from
02:08these fires has now climbed to at least 24. Officials caution that that number could potentially
02:13rise further as specialized teams, including cadaver dogs, continue their search through the
02:18rubble. Fire crews and other workers will be back on the ground today tackling a range of critical
02:23tasks. Again, they are focused on extinguishing hot spots, closely monitoring for flare-ups,
02:28and clearing debris from roads and power lines. Again, we bring you back live. We are at the
02:33PCH Command Center. This is one of, by the way, many across the Los Angeles region that many are
02:39dealing with currently this morning. I've also been in communication with the public information
02:43officer for the Los Angeles Fire Department. I mentioned to him this morning, you know,
02:49what is kind of the plan leading into today? Every day really brings a new day here. He did just give
02:54me a layout. Let's see if I could pull it up really quickly. We've been texting back and forth.
02:58Today he tells me there are a couple of things to keep in mind. One of them is that the mayor
03:03is planning to speak in downtown Los Angeles at eight o'clock this morning. That'll be the first
03:07press briefing that we've heard this week. Then another location to one of their other command
03:12centers in Zuma. That's going to happen around three o'clock today. So again, they are trying
03:16to update the media and, more importantly, the residents that are here consistently as much as
03:22possible to give them as many answers, ladies, as they possibly can right now. Ali, excellent
03:27report. We appreciate that new information, hearing the sound bites. Anne and I both looked at each
03:31other as that firefighter was speaking, just learning a lot about what the day-to-day and
03:36hour-to-hour work is like for them. So really important updates. We appreciate you being out
03:40there live for us in Pacific Palisades this morning.
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