Wildfires and Mudslide Threat Loom Over California (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Now to the wildfires in Southern California, high winds are fueling the flames with a new threat of mudslides coming this weekend. Our chief national correspondent Matt Gutmann is on the scene in the fire zone yet again. Good morning, Matt. Hey, good morning, Lindsay. I want you to take a look

Speaker 2: at this house. Many people fear that this could be a precursor of what might happen this weekend. That house survived the Palisades fire, but it was split in two by a landslide and across Southern California and all of these burn scars. The fire's so thoroughly cooked, not just the vegetation, but also the soil that it turned the earth into a kind of quicksand. And that is what we're seeing across Southern California. And now there's raising concerns from officials as we expect rain starting tomorrow. And you think that half an inch of rain across a parched area that hasn't seen appreciable rain in eight months would be a good thing, but not so much. That's why authorities here have ordered the filling of 15,000 sandbags. They've ordered the placement of K-rails, those concrete rails, to catch some of the mudflows and a frenzied cleanup because there are also concerned about toxic ash runoff. That's what happens when you have 13,000 homes that have burned and all the pollutants inside that have burned with them. But first, firefighters have to get through today. Just over the past 24 hours, we've seen 10 new fire starts and those red flag warnings remain in effect through the end of the morning here. George. Just endless. Okay, Matt. Thanks very much.