Woolsy Fire News Today

Its all included with your amazon prime membership. thats how xfinity makes tv... simple. easy. awesome. >> sandra: this mornings commute in cities across california may be rougher than usual as parts of several highways are closed because of mudslides, flooding, snow from over the weekend. white-out conditions in the sierra nevada regions and parts of the pacific coast highway remain closed after a mudslide where the woolsy fire burned 100,000 acres back in november. >> im not a person of color...

Destroyed so far and more than 5,000 personnel are currently fighting the fire. in southern california, mandatory evacuation orders were lifted overnight for parts of the west hills of los angeles and the west lake area of thousand oaks. thats where crews have been battling the woolsy fire. were told progress is being made there with 30% containment. last night, the president tweeted that he has approved and expedited major disaster declaration for california, freeing up federal funds to help th...

Lot of animals, as well. >> kathie park for us in westlake village. lets take a look at north of that, north of malibu in ventura county. these are live pictures. this is what we are focussed on at the moment. there is a lot of forest area just north of this. so there is some danger of this hitting forested area and becoming yet more deadly than it is. as it we are looking at it right now, it looks ready to overtake the freeway that we are looking at right now. we were seeing cars trying to get ...

In? >> reporter: the woolsy fire, that is the number that they put out. you know, these numbers continue to change as firefighters -- the priority right now is saving lives obviously, but structures as well. as they come into the communities, a better count of what has been destroyed. we noticed that the numbers continue to grow. >> we know that in malibu which is under evacuation, several houses have been lost there. row have the latest on that? >> reporter: so i was actually in malibu on satur...

If this was your home. this is absolutely devastating, heartbreaking to see these im e images play out over and over again. imagine if this was your home. look at these. the camp fire now surpassing the tubs fire which occurred last year in october in 2017. you can see the woolsy fire from space. look at the smoke. this is all being fueled and fanned by the santa ana winds that by the way have been gusting to 70 miles per hour at times. we have this process that takes the winds and it channels i...

Incredibly difficult to battle the blazes. this is the coastline of malibu. we move in a little further into the coastal mountain range and here is the hidden hills area. there is the bell canyon. these are the locations and homes where a lot of celebrities and a lot of very wealthy individuals live, and their homes are threatened by forest fires. and we still have extreme fire threats here with strong winds, low humidity and timberlike conditions. there is reprieve for the day on saturday for s...

Torched, making the campfire, what it is called, one of the deadliest, most destructive in state history. the town of paradise hit hardest. officials say 90% of the homes were destroyed there. meantime, two other fires are wreaking havoc in the los angeles area, south of that first fire we mentioned. the entire town of malibu. home to some of hollywoods biggest celebrities is almost completely abandoned. we have correspondents standing by in two areas seeing the most damage from these fires righ...

Malibu on mulholland drive. >> talk to me about how difficult it is to get to people, to assess. i spent a little time in malibu. you can be in remote sections in the foothills where homes have a lot of acreage, horses, and then you can be on the opposite side of pacific coast highway and be there on the coastline. everyones journey is different when it comes to evacuations. how do you check on one another, assist one another in a circumstance like this. >> sure. malibu is a small town. we reall...

Now, things are calm, but there is concern about tonight when theres going to be another red flag warning and winds kick up again. so fire crews want to build more containment lines and get the upper hand on this blaze. fred? >> dan, horrible situation. also very bad south of you. kaylee hartung is in malibu. these flames are showing no signs of slowing down. whats happening there? >> reporter: the woolsy fire stands at 0% containment. since the fire broke out midday thursday, l.a. county and ve...

Been discarded here. take a look at this school bus. makes you wonder if the driver realized that he was in danger and just left the school bus here. keep in mind, this fire broke out at 6:00 in the morning. as you go through town, it is unbelievable in terms of what you see. pretty much every home you come across is gone. you see businesses burned to the ground. schools, churches, retirement centers, you name it. we talked to police officers and firefighters and everyone is basically saying the...