This is CNN breaking news.

And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett with the breaking news. We are live tonight from Pacific

Palisades, California, one of the hardest hit and most devastated neighborhoods right now in

California. As the fires are raging so far uncontained at this hour, the Pacific Palisades

fire zero percent contained,

we understand right now. And in this neighborhood, house after house, as far as the eye can see,

the schools, the churches, homes just completely and utterly destroyed, winds set to pick up

again in these next few hours. And as we anticipate that, a new fire has also

broken out that we are aware of right now, none of them right now, of the five major fires

that we understand are under control at this point. They're trying to start to contain them

as these winds pick up. There are six deaths so far reported. We don't yet know the full extent

of what the death toll will be. It's impossible

to even know that in these moments that we are in. But this is what this residential neighborhood

looked like just a few days ago. One of the most beautiful neighborhoods in this entire country,

frankly, Pacific Palisades, California. Look at a, look at a basketball hoop, just a normal,

normal part of daily life. That basketball hoop is actually just behind where we are now,

looking like something destroyed as part of a war zone strike. A white wall with a mailbox, that's just across the street from where we are just days ago. Pristine, perfect, now utterly destroyed. Part of this healthscape, and that's really what it is.

And, you know, as we were flying in today, just we could see the smoke.

You actually, it's a beautiful sunny day, absolutely beautiful, not a cloud in the sky, perfect, loose skies.

And then just in the distance, starts to get hazy, that red, smoky

air. You see the billowing smoke. And even in a Boeing 67, 767, cabin starts to fill with that

acrid smell of smoke, which we are here. And I don't know over this hour, you'll see some of the

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