Multiple wildfires, including the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, are raging across Southern California Friday, leaving at least 11 dead and burning more than 10,000 homes across 27,000 acres, officials say.

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This is Madison in New York with a special edition of the Prognosis newsletter. I’m worried the people in Los Angeles.

Forecasters say the winds in L.A. have followed a favorable path to the sea. That path shifts to San Diego on Thursday night.

The intense and fast-moving fires that have cut a path of destruction through the suburbs of Los Angeles, killing at least two people, are being driven by the region's powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts that in some cases surpass hurricane-strength.