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Strong winds are returning to L.A. Lisa Brady, Fox News, the National Weather Service warning of near hurricane force winds back in the same area devastated by wind driven fires that started last week. My top priority and the priority of everyone else is to do everything we can to protect
lives. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says urgent preparations are underway, including deploying water tankers to augment the water supply. More than 12,000 homes and other structures have been destroyed. There's so many people here in the Palisades, in Malibu, just to the south of me here, and in Altadena, which was the site of a terrible firestorm too. Thousands of people are going to have a very long road ahead of them. It's hard to see how this comes back to
in certainly not in months. Probably it's going to take years. Fox's Jonathan Hunt, the fires have killed more than 20 people with crews still searching burned out homes. Fox Corporation is supporting families impacted by the wildfires with a $1 million donation to Red Cross relief efforts.
If you'd like to donate, visit go.fox slash Red Cross. Just getting word of a green light for the Justice Department to release a special counsel's report on an election interference case against President-elect Trump. A federal judge clearing the way but continuing a hold for now on the report from a classified documents investigation. Both Trump cases were ended, but two co-defendants still have charges pending in the documents probe.
Outgoing National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says talks on a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza are at a pivotal point. We are close to a deal and it can get done this week. I'm not making a promise or a prediction, but it is there for the taking and we are going to work to make it happen. Sullivan also says they are closely coordinating with the incoming Trump team. President Biden spoke yesterday with Israel's prime minister and is set to speak with Egypt's president.
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Confirmation hearings begin tomorrow for some of the president-elect's nominees, including Pete Hegseth to be defense chief and interior secretary nominee Doug Burgum. Democrats say some nominees aren't ready for hearings yet. Background checks and paperwork are not complete.
A hearing is not scheduled for Tulsi Gabbard. She's up for director of national intelligence. The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner of Virginia, is not ready to pull the trigger. Gabbard previously criticized something called FISA Section 702. Civil libertarians said the program swept up information about Americans as the government spied overseas.
But Gabbard's recent comments satisfied some concerns about FISA. Fox's Chad Pergram on Capitol Hill. Gabbard now signaling support for the surveillance program after updates aimed at protecting civil liberties and whistleblowers.
Parts of the Northeast U.S. are preparing for another round of big snow, possibly one to two feet. Nearly a million people in northern New York State are under winter warnings in the fourth major lake effect snow event this season. Forecasters say multiple rounds of lake effect snow are expected to hit the region between Erie, Pennsylvania to near Buffalo, New York.
Snow squalls are forecast for both states and could dump up to two feet in some areas, which could affect travel. That area has already seen some of the most snow in the country. Erie has already gotten more than 81 inches of snow this season, while Buffalo has gotten almost 30. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Sunday that...
crews across the state are preparing to deal with the snow. In New York, Tanya J. Powers, Fox News. The Dallas Cowboys reportedly parting ways with head coach Mike McCarthy, a source telling the Associated Press they've decided to split ahead of a negotiation window that runs through tomorrow on a McCarthy contract that expired last week. On Wall Street, a rally for the Dow up 216 now, but a sell-off for the Nasdaq down 147. I'm Lisa Brady. This is Fox News.