DEVELOPING: A new brush fire has erupted in the Hollywood Hills and appears to be growing at a rapid rate of speed. Los Angeles police and firefighters are responding. Alex Stone reports. #news #fire #hollywood #losangeles #california #breakingnews #abcnews

President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump paid respects to former President Jimmy Carter as the 39th president lies in state inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Carter is being honored with a funeral service on Thursday at Washington National Cathedral, just miles north of the White House. #news #jimmycarter #donaldtrump #melaniatrump #abcnews

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum responded sarcastically on Wednesday to President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, saying North America should be renamed “América Mexicana." #news #mexico #us #abcnews

Southern California residents awoke to a hazy sunrise over the Los Angeles skyline choked by smoke from multiple nearby wildfires. #fire #wildfire #california #news #abcnews

"After this is over — and it will be over — then we have to band together ... and we have to help each other and we have to rebuild." Actor Steve Guttenberg, who lives in California near where the Palisades Fire is raging, describes to ABC News how he's trying to assist his community by moving abandoned cars out of the road and shares more about the need for able-bodied individuals to help. #fire #wildfire #california #news #abcnews