Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.

Good evening, Alex. And with this new report tonight, this means that the entire city of Los Angeles,

the entire region, has fire spreading through it. From the western edge that we knew about last night,

the Pacific Palisades, now to what you just reported, the Hollywood Hills. That's just about

dead center. And then we've already had fire out on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. This means

that really everyone in the region now, people who an hour ago in the middle of town who were in the Hollywood area, West Hollywood, thinking they were

completely safe, are now in their cars, not knowing where they're going.

This is, this really is something we have never, ever seen before in Los Angeles.

And I believe that sunset fire in the Hollywood Hills is now presently at 20 acres of

flame.

So it's, I mean, it's a catastrophic situation that defies descriptions.

We're going to try to bring in as much simulcasting from KNBC in Los Angeles as we can

to show these images that are just stunning.

All right, Lawrence. We'll stick with your coverage. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Well, as this fire now spreads literally all the way across the Los Angeles region,

this is the night when my house might burn down. It is being threatened by fire now in a way that wasn't possible even yesterday or earlier today that we did not know about. So many friends of mine have already lost their homes in Los Angeles.

Patrick Verone, someone who I've known since college, a former president of the Writers Guild,

where his family in a house, his family grew up in, in Pacific Palisades, that house has been lost. He's not the only one. Another writer,

a friend of mine who have known since college reports that as many as half of the writers on the

very popular TV show that he has written for for many years, half of them have lost their homes. This situation really is happening in a way that

we have never seen before. I just got a text from an intrepid and award-winning journalist,

Daniel Valle, who is also a screenwriter who lives in the region, who has press credentials

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