New Fire Erupts Near Major Freeway in Los Angeles
BERMAN: All right, breaking news. This is a new wildfire raging out of control in Los Angeles. This is near the Getty Center.</s>CAMEROTA: Oh, my gosh. It looks horrible. Look at -- look at what's your screen.</s>BERMAN: Very near the 405 Freeway in Brentwood. It's only 4 in the morning on the West Coast. And I do want to note that NBA star LeBron James tweeted moments ago that he evacuated his home. He now does say he's safe. But he was driving around for a while, looking for a hotel room. In the meantime, the situation in Northern California's wine country is getting worse, as well. CNN's Dan Simon is live in Sonoma County with a look at what's going on there -- Dan.</s>DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, John and Alisyn, first of all, those pictures very frightening in terms of what we are seeing in Southern California, that fire growing very fast, now up to 75 acres. And we're seeing a lot of evacuations there in Los Angeles near the Brentwood area. In the meantime, we are in front of what was a winery. It had been here for 150 years. About all you can see now is this brick facade. And we are seeing devastation like this throughout the community. What makes this fire, though, so impactful is the amount of people involved. You're talking about 200,000 folks who have been forced to evacuate because of the strong winds that you saw over the weekend. And on top of that, you have about 2 million people who have been in the dark because the utility PG&E cut off the power to prevent other wildfires from breaking out. We should point out, though, that PG&E apparently might be responsible for this catastrophic Kincade Fire, because one of its transmission lines went down near where this fire started. In the meantime, fire crews hope to make some progress on this fire today, because the winds have died down, but it is still growing, 55,000 acres. You've got about 3,000 firefighters on -- 3,000 firefighters on the line. At this point, John and Alisyn, just 5 percent containment. In fact, the containment numbers went down over the weekend. We'll see what happens today. Winds dying down but expected to pick up again tomorrow. We'll send it back to you.</s>CAMEROTA: Oh, my gosh, Dan. Just 5 percent, less than 5 percent contained. The herculean task that these firefighters have every day we've been reporting on, John.</s>BERMAN: And a picture on the screen right now. This is Los Angeles. We just saw a helicopter dumping water on that fire right near the 405, right near the Getty Center, which if you haven't been, is one of the most beautiful museums in America. But it's up on a hillside. It's up on this hillside with all this brush nearby. I can't imagine what will happen as the fire moves closer to it. Again, I think we have the video of this helicopter dumping the water just moments ago.</s>CAMEROTA: Gosh, look at this. I mean, again, it feels as though as every day for the past two weeks, three weeks --</s>BERMAN: Yes.</s>CAMEROTA: -- we've been reporting on fires somewhere in California. It just feels as though the state can't get out ahead of this, given the conditions, given the wind that's been whipping up. We feel for all of the firefighters and everyone who is displaced this morning there.</s>BERMAN: We'll stay on it throughout the morning.</s>CAMEROTA: Well, in the history of American presidents announcing the deaths of enemies, President Trump's speech about Baghdadi this weekend sticks out. John Avlon has our "Reality Check." John, tell us what you've heard.</s>JOHN AVLON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Good morning, guys. Well, look, this is good news, the leader of ISIS dead after a raid by American Special Forces. And it will be regarded as one of the great milestones of the Trump administration, just as the killing of Osama bin Laden is regarded as one of the great milestones of the Obama administration. In both cases, the president gave the greenlight to a gutsy raid that brought a mass murderer to justice, without the death of any American servicemen. But, because there's a tweet for everything, we can't help but notice that President Trump refused to give credit to President Obama at the time, tweeting, among other things, "Stop congratulating Obama for killing bin Laden." That's not the only stark departure from presidential norms we saw yesterday. Trump recounted the death of Baghdadi's in, shall we say, colorful terms, describing him as whimpering, crying, screaming. He died like a dog, Trump said. It's not typically the kind of rhetoric we hear from U.S. presidents. In contrast, President Obama took pains to emphasize that both he and President Bush believe that the war on terror and al Qaeda, in particular, was not a war against Islam. We even learned that later, Obama called former presidents Bush and Clinton before the announcement, according to "The Washington Post." Trump notably did not do that. He apparently didn't call Obama or any Democratic congressional leaders who would typically get a heads-up. He did, however, give a heads-up to Putin, who he seems to trust with national security information more than the Democrats. He even thanked Russia twice over the Kurdish troops who've been fighting alongside the U.S. against ISIS for years. Now, we know that size matters a lot to this president, but we didn't know it extended to the killing of terrorists.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This is the biggest there is. This is the worst ever. Osama bin Laden was very big. But Osama bin Laden became big with the World Trade Center. This is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it, a country.</s>AVLON: Big with the World Trade Center. That's true that bin Laden never conquered a self-styled caliphate, but ISIS hadn't executed anything resembling 9/11 on U.S. soil. And then there's the question of personal credit. Trump seemed to be angling for it, repeating an absurd riff about one line in a ghost- written book.</s>TRUMP: To this day, I get people coming up to me. They said, you know what? One of the most amazing things I've ever seen about you, is that you predicted that Osama bin Laden had to be killed before he knocked down the World Trade Center? But it is true. If you go back, look at my book.</s>AVLON: Look at the book. So we did. And it's not in the book. Presidents deserve credit for decisions they make. But of course, the real credit belongs to the troops who executed the raid at direct personal, rather than political, risk. It belongs to the intelligence community and military leaders who have been working on this for years. The end of the Cold War, for example, President George H.W. Bush notably refused to crow about the fall of the Soviet Union. When Harry Truman announced the death of Hitler, he did it in a decidedly Midwestern understated manner. And in the annals of American war, there's perhaps no president who can claim for victory more than President Lincoln. He'd been near the front lines at the end of the war and, after the surrender at Appomattox, he acknowledged the cheering crowd on the White House lawn that, while he had the pleasure of transmitting much of the good news to you as president, but he said, "No part of the honor for plan or execution is mine. To General Grant, his skillful officers and brave men, all belongs." And that's your "Reality Check."</s>BERMAN: John, my question is, why doesn't someone write a book about the final days of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln's handling of those final days?</s>CAMEROTA: Would that be a good idea?</s>AVLON: It's a good question. It's a good idea, and I appreciate the product promotion for the future book.</s>BERMAN: You're writing a book on that?</s>AVLON: As luck would have it. Lincoln's plan to win the peace by winning the war.</s>BERMAN: We look forward to that very much.</s>CAMEROTA: He is so ahead of you. That's so great. John, thank you. So Democrats say they were kept in the dark during and after the raid in Syria that got Baghdadi. Nancy Pelosi says the Kremlin was told before she was. What's that about?