As evacuations keep growing due to the Palisades Fire, powerful winds mean any other fires that spark could spread just as quickly.
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00:00Harrowing video coming in where you have those wildfires or at least that fire
00:05Continuing to cause problems there in SoCal
00:09Particularly in a Pacific Palisades and even trying to get out of this area has proved to be difficult
00:15Yeah
00:15There is kind of an arm of Pacific Palisades that extends to the northwest and it becomes very difficult to get it in and out
00:21Some of these communities very desirable places to live up with the bluffs and the mountains nearby
00:26But it's not easy to build multiple roads in and out of there
00:29So we got an issue there with fire crews trying to access while people are trying to get out and there are reports that people
00:35Have been abandoning their vehicles
00:37Because of some danger. Yeah, very hectic situation there
00:41Of course, we're going to continue to keep you updated on the situation on the network and on a line
00:47Winds well, there's no surprise that there's that fire weather risk here
00:51you can see the winds clearly coming out of the north and east here Jeff and
00:55They're reaching the LA Metro and even closer towards the coast
01:00Yeah
01:00These are generally airport locations and you build airports where it's not as windy as the canyons and passes nearby
01:05So we got some screaming winds and some of the most volatile situations here. Our top story is this serious wildfire situation?
01:12It's unfolding in coastal areas of Southern, California
01:14Burning hillsides billowing smoke near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Santa Monica area
01:20This fire broke out earlier today and quickly ballooned to 200 acres and growing an extreme wildfire threat is in place for much of
01:27Southern, California through Wednesday as a quote-unquote life-threatening destructive widespread windstorm is
01:34Underway, we're gonna have more on this breaking story in just a few minutes