The Wildfire Disaster Could Get Worse Around Los Angeles
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The wildfire disaster could get even worse around Los Angeles. I'm Dave Anthony, Fox News. We're in really now the calm before the next windstorm. Santa Ana winds will pick back up today into Wednesday and could spread through wildfires still raging, including the one that left Pacific Palisades at Shard Ruins. Fox's Jonathan Hunt is there. That was the situation last Tuesday morning when the flames ripped.

through here in the Palisades, wreaking this kind of damage across such a huge swath of what was an idyllic part of Los Angeles. At least 24 people have been killed. More than 12,000 buildings and houses have burned down, including Robert Lara's and Altadena. His mother and uncle's homes are also just ashes now. And he tells Fox his... Lost mentally. This is so much to attempt to process.

I mean, we have everything. It's all gone. FEMA Administrator Deanna Criswell tells Fox the victims need to reply right away. So we can ensure that they're getting everything that they're eligible for. And our programs are designed to help jumpstart that recovery. But for what we can't cover, we want to connect them with like the Small Business Administration that can help provide low interest loans. A week before he leaves office, President Biden will speak today touting his foreign policy.

The day after, he talked to Israel's prime minister amid reported progress and talks with Hamas to work out a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza. The president also spoke yesterday to relatives of three Americans he's trying to free from Afghanistan, including Ryan Corbett. But his wife, Anna, tells Fox. See, here, after all this effort...

that there is a deal on the table, there is a way to bring Ryan home, and it's not being taken is incredibly crushing to our family. Corbett says she had a much better conversation for an hour with incoming Trump National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. The deal would be a prisoner swap with the Taliban releasing a terrorist suspect to U.S. prisons in Guantanamo.

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It's an up and down morning to start the week on Wall Street. The Dow is gaining 141 points, but the Nasdaq is down big, dropping 231. It's a 31-point loss so far for the S&P 500. The price of oil is up more than a dollar, close to 78 bucks a barrel, which could make gas more expensive. But lately, that price has barely changed. In the last three weeks, analyst Tribble Lundberg says in her survey of stations... The average price of gasoline at the pump went up one single penny.

The new price is $3.14, and that's just four cents lower than it was a year ago. AAA's national average for regular gas, less than hers, $3.06 per gallon. There's a new number one movie in theaters. Mid-January is often a slow movie-going time of year, and much of Hollywood's attention now is on the wildfires burning in the L.A. region. But one movie managed to rake in some cash at the top of the box office, Den of Thieves 2, Pantera. There are no dead cells.

So we'll have to create one. You feeling it? Yeah, I'm feeling it. It took in more than $15 million this weekend. At number two was Mufasa at $13 million. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is in its fourth weekend and still filling theater seats with $11 million in ticket sales. Kathleen Maloney, Fox News. The NFL playoffs wildcard round ends tonight.

In Arizona, where the L.A. Rams will play the Minnesota Vikings in a game moved out of Los Angeles by the wildfire disaster. There was a dramatic ending in last night's game. Washington beat Tampa Bay on a last-second field goal on NBC. The Commanders' first playoff win in 19 years, led by rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels. It means a lot, man. You can just see all the fans over here, man. They're waiting for us.

They waited a long time for this moment and this feeling, so I'm just so happy for them. Also Sunday, Philadelphia and Buffalo advance. The Eagles beat the Green Bay Packers 22-10. The Bills routed the Denver Broncos 31-7. I'm Dave Anthony, and this is Fox News.