Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. The death toll from the California Wildfires is rising. Two people having killed by the woolsey fire, the first fatalities in Southern California. That pushes the total number of deaths across the state to at least 25 now. The flames are intensifying. These images are the latest, showing the devastation in malibu. Today officials issued this warning. All state, federal, and local agencies are doing everything they can to deal with these fires. Sadly, with these winds, its not over yet. So please, be careful. At this moment, three fires are raging in the state, and with wind gusts expected upwards of 60 miles an hour, the uphill battle is steepening. Our team is standing by with everything you need to know about these deadly fires. I want to begin with scott mclean in malibu, where high winds are expected to fuel this woolsey fire for the next couple days. Scott, tell us more. Reporter hey, fredricka. Thats right. Firefighters yesterday had a bit of a reprieve, managing to get this fire 10 contained, but the worry, as you mentioned, with those winds kicking up today, all the way into tuesday, is that things will get worse. You can see this part of malibu, right near the ocean, has been absolutely charred. You can see all the trees that have been burned through. If you look to the other side, theres a canyon there. It managed to get all the way up to the other side. Somehow, those houses or those condos managed to survive. We know from talking to people who live over there that theyre trying to put out hot spots, trying to use shovels to put out whatever smoldering areas they can to try to protect their homes. If you come over here, some of these homes that were impacted, you can imagine, were absolutely gorgeous. This one has a tennis court, a beautiful ocean view right out to the pacific ocean. You can see here this looks like it was probably a garage. Theres a charred car there. Check out the smoke at the neighbors house. This is what were talking about. Some of these areas that are just smoldering that are hard to put out for good seem to reenergize and once you get a gust of wind, thats part of the problem that firefighters are seeing. I actually spoke to a woman not long ago who used to live in this house right here, the one on the ocean. She just moved about a year ago. She gave us a bit of a tour, listen. This was the front door, and then you went down around the back side there. The landlords, the owner of the property, had a onebedroom unit here. We were in a twobedroom unit here. That was our living room, fireplace, and the bedroom fireplace is over there. Reporter she said its hard to imagine the fire got this close to the ocean. I mean, right to the edge of the ocean, literally. She said people in this area just never expected that it would come to this. They figured people inland were at a much greater risk. They didnt think they were at much of a risk or certainly as much of a risk in this area. The problem with the winds, fredricka, is that because they are going to be coming from onshore, that means that they are the air is hot and dry. Humidity levels are extremely low. It makes that fire risk very, very dangerous. Wow. And scott, did she have a story as to how she got out . Reporter yeah, so shes lucky. She actually used to live in this house. She moved one year ago. So she lives elsewhere in malibu right now. She actually operates a kitchen. Luckily, she said she managed to not be in area. I spoke to other people who said they were trying to fend off the flames right until things looked just simply too dangerous. One guy yesterday named scott, he came back for the first time. He said they were literally going with a garden hose to hose down everything they could, but they lived sort of at the top of a canyon. Of course, fire travels much easier uphill than it does downhill. So he was doing the best that he could, but then once he saw a power pole on his street get knocked over because it had been burned through, he said its time to leave. Im sure there are many stories just like that one. Close calls. Scott, thank you so much. Now lets go to nick valencia in Northern California, where the deadly camp fire is still out of control. There, too, are some unbelievable, harrowing stories. At the same time, this is particularly deadly in your region. Reporter fredricka, just awful, awful images were seeing here in Northern California. This is paradise, california, which really was the epicenter of the camp fire as it started thursday morning. Some of these shocking images that were seeing are right here, right behind me. These cars, the aftermath of the gridlock that ensued just after 6 00 in the morning. Some of the more shocking images is this melted windshield. We did a check here. It takes about 2800 degrees fahrenheit to melt glass. You have aluminum melted as well. This fire, so random and indiscriminate. Already its burned 109,000 acres. Overnight it burned an or including 6,000 acres burned overnight. Its not as much as they expected, especially with red flag warnings scott was talking about. 50mileperhour wind gusts, perfect conditions for this type of fire to spread. And just how random i was talking about, you have a plastic bin here filled with kindling that was untouched it. This side of the street, just devastated by the fire. Some of these structures are still smoldering. People have lost their lives here. In fact, 19 in all, four in a neighboring town, bringing the total to 23 in all. A sheriff gave a press conference here last night locally, saying about 100 people are still unaccounted for. They expect that number to fluctuate in the coming days as they continue to find people and go through these areas and perhaps recover more bodies. Nick, thank you so much from paradise, california. Meteorologist tom sader joining me right now. Tom, the winds, its very dry. Just a combustible combination. It really isnt good. They should have, at least through october into the first two weeks of november, we should have five, six inches of rain, maybe isolated seven inches. This wildfire season, year by year, were seeing it extended. We havent had a drop of rain in a month. Thats one of the problems. Weve got other concerns here. Yes, the winds are strong. Humidity on thursday in one hour dropped from like 37 into the single digits. Thats drier than a desert. But here are the red flag warnings. You see them in pink. In gray, thats poor air quality. Wait until i show you the satellite images. Paradise, communities are scorched. Theyre just lost. We have 25 containment. The firefighters are doing a tremendous job trying to battle these winds. This is the western u. S. On thursday. You see some snow in the mountains. Not a cloud until you see the smoke plume. They should be into the wet season right now. Thats not occurring. On thursday, the winds howling down through the mountain passes, through the canyons, triggering this of course. Then the winds shifted. Look where the smoke went. Instead of offshore, its through all of california. San francisco, san jose, fresno. Thats just what the camp fire to the north. This is interesting. This is where were having our hot spots. Heres the scorched area. Chico, where everybody has been going to get away. Then theres paradise in the center. Notice the hot spots. We can now overlay some of the flight pats that the tankers have been taking. You can start to see it. Fighting that northern flank, hot spots to the northeast, but theyre really starting to work down to the south to cut this off before it gets to orville. Now, lets take a look at this. Camp fire is now the most destructive in california history. If you look at the years past, a thousand here, thousand structures, all the sudden were up to 6700. It tops last years tubbs fire. Theyre all from 2015, 2017, 2018. So the south, woolsey fire, only 10 contained. The hill fire that started thursday is 75 contained. Theyve been working great on that. This is where you have malibu trying to fight it off with a retardant, trying to bomb from above to save these homes. But on the southern flank, you get toward areas such as hidden hills, tens of thousands of homes are still at risk here, threatened from these fires. Theyre working these fires the best they can, from the ground and from above. Of course, we have injuries already to firefighters. Heres the plume offshore from the fire to the south, ventura county. The winds are blowing that in. We are going to see improvement to the north tomorrow, getting a little to the south, but were still looking at extreme conditions to continue for the woolsey fire to the south. Maybe a little better tomorrow. The problem is it reverses and goes back to what it was on thursday as we get into tuesday and wednesday. So this is not a good time of year. We should be having rain in this area of the country and were not. Just deteriorating conditions. All right. Thank you so much, tom. Appreciate it. Coming up, to florida we go. Rick scotts Campaign Filing lawsuits over the recount in that state as states prepare to counties, rather, to start counting those ballots. Well take you live to florida. This is not a bed. Its a revolution in sleep. The new sleep number 360 smart beds are on sale now during sleep numbers veterans day sale. It senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. It even helps with this. So you wake up ready to put your pedal to the metal. And now, during our veterans day sale, the queen sleep number 360 c4 smart bed is only 1299 save 400. Plus, 36month financing. Ends monday. Sleep number. Proven, quality sleep. 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If you cant afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. Rick scott and his campaign are preparing legal action on the florida recount, which has put this election on hold in terms of outcome. The process of recounting ballots in all 67 counties is under way for the first time in florida history. This is a life look inside the Broward County supervisor of elections office, where Voting Machines are sorting ballots and soon the recounting of those votes will begin. The vote totals for governor and the u. S. Senate races are less than half a percentage point, forcing this recount. Lets get the latest from cnns ryan nobles, whos in tallahassee for us. Tell us more about these lawsuits filed by rick scott. Reporter yeah, fred. We have more information since the last time that we spoke. Let me first tell you about these lawsuits. Three different lawsuits filed by rick scotts campaign. Theyre directed at the supervisors of elections in broward and Palm Beach County. The first is directly against the supervisor of elections. Its accusing her of counting ballots after the noon deadline on saturday, saying she did that illegally, against florida law. So theyre trying to prevent those votes from being counted in the overall total. And then there are two other lawsuits, one dealing with Broward County, the other with Palm Beach County, that requests that florida sheriffs and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement impound any ballot and machine involved in the counting while the counting is not happening. So that would mean if they take a break for any reason or after the recount is all over. Since we last reported this news, we do now have a statement in, fred, from senator bill nelson himself. This actually just hit my inbox. Im going to read it for you now. Quote, if rick scott wanted to make sure every legal ballot is counted, he would not be suing to try and stop voters from having their legal ballot counted as intended. Hes been doing this for the same reason hes been making false and panicked claims about voter fraud. Hes worried when all the votes are counted, hell lose this election. We will not allow him to undermine the democratic process, and we will use every legal tool available to protect the rights of florida voters. That comes directly from bill nelson. We havent heard that much from senator nelson since the election. Hes only given one video statement and has been quiet in terms of paper statements, like this one i just read. So this is a strong reaction from the Nelson Campaign as we get this new information about these lawsuits. Fred, we dont anticipate that these lawsuits will have any real tangible impact on the recount, but well have to see what a judge says when they hear these lawsuits and if that does change the course of this. At this point right now, a lot of back and forth between these campaigns as this historic recount is really just beginning. And ryan, is scotts campaign saying anything more about how it knows . What has it discovered in this accusation that the supervisor counted votes after the noon deadline yesterday, when noon was the deadline for all of the precincts, all the counties to get those numbers in . How do they know that . Reporter i mean, in the lawsuit, they do provide some explanation as to why they believe that this took place. But i have to tell you, from my own experience in covering elections and counting ballots, its not as if ballots are separated and put in different boxes from where theyre counted at any given time. Florida does make some precautions for the difference between a provisional ballot versus a mailin ballot, versus a ballot filed at the actual jurisdiction. I think this may be a difficult thing for a judge to rule on. Thats just from my own personal experience covering vote counts like this. You know, a lot of this, fred and i think we have to caution our viewers. A loot t of this is theater fro both sides, designed to make one side look like theyre being more in the interest of voters versus the other side being in the interest of voters. A judge is going to have a look at this. The judge is the one that will make the final decision. This is just another page in this new story being written about florida politics. All right. And even when these lawsuits filed, the recounting continues. The deadline for that is this thursday, 3 00 p. M. Thank you so much, ryan nobles. Appreciate it from tallahassee. Still ahead, tension on the world stage. One of the u. S. s strongest allies denouncing President Trumps nationalism approach. This as World Leaders gathered to pay tribute to those two died in world war i. Pruesident trump is on his way back to washington after a trip to france that had a few tense moments. French president Emmanuel Macron delivered a forceful rebuke of trumps selfproclaimed nationalist position. Translator patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. I know there are old demons which are coming back to the surface. Theyre ready to wreak chaos and death. History sometimes threatens to take its sinister course once again. And later in the rain, trump spoke at an American Cemetery where 1,565 americans from world war i and world war ii are buried. Trump did not acknowledge macrons nationalism dig, instead focused on honoring the fallen. American and french patriots of world war i embody the timeless virtues of our two republics, honor and courage, strength and valor, love and loyalty, grace and glory. It is our duty to preserve the civilization they defended and to protect the peace they so nobly gave their lives to secure one century ago. And yesterday after cancelling a planned wreath laying at another American Cemetery roughly 50 miles outside of parse becauis becaus weather, vociferous backlash. The grandson of former british Prime MinisterWinston Churchill among those criticizing the decision, tweeting this. They died with their face to the foe, and that pathetic, inadequate real donald trump couldnt even defy the weather to pay his respects to the fallen. Joining me now, cnn political and National Security analyst david sanger. Good to see you. So your reaction to, i guess, the decision for the president not to do the wreath laying and then get that kind of backlash. I think there are two elements to his trip, both of which i think over time will come to symbolize in some way the breach between the United States and its closest allies in the first two years of the trump presidency. One of them was just the optics earlier today of all of the leaders lined up and walking to together down the champselysees, trying to show the sign of unity, and they were missing one man. It was donald trump. The white house later said that there was a security protocol that meant he had to come separately, but weve seen this happen before. Weve seen moments where president s have had to come out with their allies, and they figured out the security protocol in advance. What is the damage done when you have a security protocol or logistical problems, the excuses that come with or the explanations that come with this kind of absence . Fredricka, the problem that you run into is that it plays into a meme very clear in europe, less so here in the u. S. , that the United States is separating itself from its allies. And you heard this a bit in president macrons statement. It was the section you ran. There was another section of his speech where he said, when you put interests of a nation first he didnt say america, but clearly thats what he meant you are then basically doing the selfish thing of saying that it is your interests over the joint interests with your allies that matter the most. I dont think the president would disagree with that. Hes very deliberate in his use of america first. I think in this particular case, macron was making i