Tonight, the devastating wildfires burning out of control in Los Angeles.

Thousands of buildings burned in what's being called the worst blaze in the city's history.

We've got reporters standing by and we'll talk to residents displaced by the fires.

Then President Jimmy Carter laid to rest the moving tributes at his National Funeral Service in Washington.

Plus, my keynote with the one and only Jamie Lee Curtis.

We hit on everything from the L.A. fires to the legacy of Jimmy Carter as the 11th hour gets

underway on this Thursday night.

Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Ruhl, and we are monitoring the catastrophic wildfires ripping through Southern California. At least five separate fires are burning across the Los Angeles

area. Two of the largest fires remain completely uncontained. Firefighters are working overtime around the clock to get the blazes under control, but 17 million are under red flag warnings as the Santa Ana winds pick up overnight. This is already the most destructive fire in L.A. City history. Six people are confirmed dead, but authorities warn that that toll could rise as more thorough

searches are conducted through the wreckage. The devastation is so complete that the L.A. County

Sheriff said some areas look like a bomb was dropped. Thousands of structures have burned to the ground.

Almost 180,000 people have been forced from their homes, and President Joe Biden announced officially that the federal government would cover 100,000 people have been forced from their homes.

And President Joe Biden announced officially that the federal government would cover 100% of the disaster response cost for the next 180 days.

I want to begin with NBC News correspondent Morgan Chesky, who joins us now from Pacific Palisades.

Morgan?

Yeah, we're here in Pacific Palisades. Hard to believe it's now been about 72 hours since this historic firefight began. And tonight, fire alarms still going

off in the distance. This Palisades fire, zero percent contained. The Eaton fire about 30 miles from where we're standing still 0% contained.

And while crews say they have made significant progress, rather, in certain aspects of the firefight, there is no one that is out of the woods at this point in time for a couple reasons.

Number one, the sheer scope of these multiple fires burning simultaneously.

Number two, that is what led to all of this, the wind, that incredible wind that we saw play out Tuesday night into Wednesday morning,

gusts approaching 100 miles an hour. Fortunately,

they have subsided somewhat. But that red flag warning, so telling, that lasts until Friday

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