I am so glad you're here. I'm glad you made it safely.

I am happy to be here. This energy is what we need today, all of this energy.

Thank you.

It has been a very difficult week here in California.

There was a mass shooting in Thousand Oaks last week, where 12 innocent people lost their lives.

We haven't taped a show since that happened, and I just wanted to send my love to everyone in that community.

My family lives there. It's horrible.

And so to the friends and family of those people, we all send love.

We all send love today.

And then to make matters worse, two huge fires are burning, one in Northern California,

one here in Southern California that started near set Thousand Oaks.

And just to give you a little insight, I think everyone's seeing it on the news,

but the Northern California fire's the most destructive fire in California history.

It's burned, at this time that I'm speaking, 110,000 acres.

And it's only 25% contained. Over 6,000 homes have been destroyed.

Then there's the Woolsey fire in Malibu.

It's only 20% contained and has burned more than 90,000 acres.

Hundreds of homes have been lost.

And the number just keeps rising. The winds are bad for the next few days.

It's just devastating here.

And I just want to point out that a lot of the homes that are making the headlines are big celebrity mansions,

but thousands of people from all different backgrounds have been affected by these fires.

An entire town of Northern California was wiped out.

One of my executive producers, Ed, had to evacuate his house.

He and his wife took all their animals. They went to a motel.

He's been wearing the same thing since Friday, so we helped him out.

We gave him something from wardrobe.

Ed, what did we give you? Oh, that's good.

That's good. Good.

It's important to wear a hat, I guess.

It wasn't enough just to give you that. We gave you a hat.

Yeah, I know. Really looks good. Yeah, it really does.

I hope Debbie enjoys it. You wear that home.

All right. Yeah. I can't go home. Ed--

Well, in all this sadness, we found a new look for you, and that's good.

That's important. That's a really good look for you.

Thank you, Ellen. Ed, I'm glad you're safe, and you can take that off now.

All right, also, Portia's brother, Michael, works with the LA sheriff's department search and rescue team.

He stepped in. He's been doing 12-hour shifts.

And I posted this picture of him on Instagram over the weekend.

I think that's him. I don't know. It could be--anybody, but he says it's him.

But I want to show you some more photos of brave firefighters because they are amazing people, these firefighters.

Never be enough words.

Really, there are not enough words to tell the firefighters how grateful we all are for them.

Literally, they just run towards danger.

They save thousands and thousands of people.

They save animals and houses from burning, so thank you, thank you, thank you.

And I know sometimes a thank you isn't enough, so I made a call to my friends at Walmart,

and they immediately wanted to step in and help.

They're committed to supporting communities whenever disasters hit.

So today, they are donating $100,000 to the firefighters.

Thank you, Walmart. Thank you, Walmart, that's amazing.

At a time like this, we all need to help each other.

I saw this quote, "You were born with the ability to change someone's life. Don't ever waste it."

I don't know if that was from the Bible or Kathy Lee's Instagram--

--but it was something that I remember.

Anyway, here's what I would encourage everyone to do.

Don't ask what you can do to help, just help.

Everyone needs everything right now-- clothing, food.

Donate your time, your energy, your money.

You can find out different ways to help on our website.