Severe Weather

While crews continue to make progress with the massive Eaton and Palisades fire that left communities devastated, they are now battling the Hughes Fire in the Santa Clarita Valley, which has put an estimated 50,000 residents under evacuation orders. FOX 11's Gigi Graciette joined LiveNOW from FOX with the latest.

A major winter storm brought blizzard conditions to Louisiana on Tuesday, turning New Orleans into a snow town. The record-breaking snowstorm blanketed palm trees in fresh flakes and halted the normally bustling Big Easy. LiveNOW's Andy Mac spoke about the snowstorm with FOX News' Bowen Kedrowicz.

A major winter storm brought blizzard conditions to Louisiana on Tuesday, turning New Orleans into a snow town. The record-breaking snowstorm blanketed palm trees in fresh flakes and halted the normally bustling Big Easy. The powerful and deadly winter storm swept across the South on Tuesday, dumping heavy snow across areas that rarely see flakes or bitterly cold conditions. The storm prompted the National Weather Service to issue the first-ever Blizzard Warning for southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas. New Orleans shattered its one-day snow total record by noon when Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport recorded 4 inches of snow. The new record breaks the Dec. 31, 1963 record of 2.7 inches, and the snow was still coming down Tuesday afternoon. FOX multimedia reporter Bowen Kedrowicz joined LiveNOW from FOX from the streets of NOLA!

LiveNOW's Austin Westfall joins Andy Mac from Pasadena to detail how residents are helping each other amid the deadly wildfires in the area.

Intense Santa Ana winds have begun moving in to Southern California as Los Angeles County residents continue to deal with the fallout from last week's deadly fires.

Washington Post Disaster Reporter Brianna Sacks joins LiveNOW's Andrew Craft to discuss some of her reporting as it relates to potential causes of the L.A. wildfires and subsequent lawsuits.

The Los Angeles Unified School District said most schools and offices will reopen Monday, Jan. 13. "Conditions have improved for a majority of areas across the Los Angeles region and the District is confident it is safe for students and employees to return to campuses," the district said in a statement. Open schools will be on a full inclement weather schedule which limits outdoor and athletics activities. Masks will also be available for students and employees, the district said.

Alex Tardy, National Weather Service San Diego Meteorologist, joins LiveNOW's Andy Mac to forecast the strong winds set to take aim at Southern California this week as crews battle multiple wildfires.

Over a thousand flights were canceled, and hundreds of others were delayed across the US after a winter storm blasted a large part of the country with heavy snow and ice. As the storm moved toward the mid-Atlantic region on Monday, more than a dozen states from Kansas and Missouri to New Jersey were under winter storm warnings and advisories. LiveNOW's Mike Pache spoke with FOX Weather's Robert Ray about how people in Indianapolis are preparing for the winter weather.

The first significant winter storm of the year is endangering a 2,100-mile swath of the country from the Northwest and Plains through the mid-Atlantic and East Coast, bringing a multitude of life-threatening hazards across major metropolitan areas, including heavy snow amid potentially blizzard-like conditions, and crippling ice accretions that could lead to extended power outages. Mike Oravec with the Weather Prediction Center joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow to discuss.

Dangerous and now deadly severe weather is sweeping through the South Saturday evening, just hours after multiple tornadoes left damage in the southeastern part of Texas. Bill Bunting, Deputy Director of the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center join LiveNOW's Austin Westfall to give the latest weather update.