Tonight on PBS News Weekend, the death toll rises in Los Angeles as firefighters scrabble to contain the flames before dangerous Santa Ana winds intensify again.

Then winter illnesses return with a vengeance as cases of RSV, COVID, and the flu surge across the country.

There's a lot of sick people with coughs, fevers, sore throats, especially in the south and the west with very high levels.

Soon the entire country will be in the red.

And what scientists hope to learn from ICE found two miles beneath Antarctica, that's more than a million years old.

Good evening. I'm John Yang. There's been some progress in containing the fires ravaging the Los Angeles area. The Hearst Fire is nearly 90% contained, while firefighters battling

the much larger palisades and Eaton fires are racing to contain those blazes during a lull in the winds, which are set to strengthen again later tonight.

This morning, Los Angeles fire chief Kristen Crowley spoke to reporters.

Strong Santa Ana wins are also expected to last through Wednesday with the strongest winds occurring on Tuesday.

Every available LAFD firefighter is on hand and will remain in place through this wind event.

Additionally, firefighters continue to pour into Southern California region to bolster our firefighting capabilities.

Sixteen people are now reported to have died in the fires with another 16 missing.

Officials say those numbers will undoubtedly go higher as search and rescue teams go door to door.

Aerial footage of the Palisades fire today, still only 11% contained, shows widespread devastation.

Chard remains are all that are left of thousands of structures.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna says that's one reason.

Residents aren't being allowed back into their neighborhoods to check on their homes.

In driving around some of these areas, they literally look like war zones.

There are down power poles, electric wires.

There are still some smoldering fires.

We want to get you back into your homes,

but we can't allow that until it is safe for you to do so.

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