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From CNN, I'm Afamadikai, for the five things you need to know for Friday, January 10th.

Holmes turned to rubble, abandoned cars scorched, and buildings decimated.

That's the new reality for people around Los Angeles, as major wildfires tear through neighborhoods.

The Pentagon says more than 600 National Guardsmen are helping firefighting and search and rescue operations.

Fire crews are expecting more wind and dry conditions to continue complicating efforts into next week.

Here is Cal Fire Battalion Chief David Acuna.

Although the winds are dying down from the direction that they were prevalent before, they are now reversing direction,

and now the areas that were calm

are now going to be the head of the fire.

And so our crews are having to be diligent

about working on the entire perimeter

in order to make sure that when the winds reverse,

that they don't have another head of the fire going a different direction.

For more information about how you can help Los Angeles area wildfire victims, go to CNN.com slash impact

or text wildfires to 707070 to donate.

A winter storm that brought snow and nights to places like Texas and Oklahoma is headed to the Carolinas and the Midwest.

Charlotte, North Carolina hasn't recorded measurable snow at least 0.1 inch in nearly two years, but likely will break that drought.

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