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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. that's where crews have been battling the woolsy fire. we're 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 those affected by the wildfires. let's bring in bill karins for a look at conditions facing these fi...

Lot of animals, as well. >> kathie park for us in westlake village. let's 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 away from that fire, but the winds are heavy. you can see that the winds are blowing from the left ...

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 saturday, a similar scene similar to what we are seeing right now. a lot of celebrities own homes in mali...

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 it right through these natural mountain slopes and really picks up the wind speed so much so that it ...