threatening thousands of homes. it's moving closer and closer to the getty center museum. about 50,000 homes have been evacuated, including areas near the hollywood hills. msnbc's jacob soboroff has been in the belle air area all day where i've been watching you and worried about your safety. many families have been forced from their homes. you've watched structures burn down. what is the latest, jacob? >> i'm all right. the same can't be says for the property of a lot of people around here. you can hear in the distance one of the water-dropping helicopters that's come through. take a look at the roof of the home next to the one i'm standing at. they are extinguishing a fire that completely demolished the home on the other side of this one. a huge loss of prrcht in this area. all along interstate 405 is the critical freeway that runs through los angeles. all the way down from the southern part of the city up through the san fernando valley and beyond. this area was completely shut down earlier. it's a fire that stretched not only for miles but over 150