Thursday’s Photos of the Day and Viral Videos

“Daddy the home is gone,” says Amanda Lewis, of the home on Colina Vista in Ventura where she grew up. Lewis called her family after checking on the home on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, after the Thomas fire raged through her parent’s foothill neighborhood. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
A couple is framed by branches while taking a stroll at the “Parco Nord” (North Park) in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
An LA City firefighters pulls hose around a house as a helicopter drops water during the Skirball Fire along Linda Flora Drive in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
In this Nov. 8, 2017, photo, a boy plays as the sun sets over donated tents for homeless families lined up on a parking lot in the city-sanctioned encampment in San Diego. A parking lot in San Diego’s famed Balboa Park has acted for the past two months as an unusual triage center. Scores of tents, mobile medical units, portable toilets and showers were brought in to meet the needs of hundreds of people affected by a societal problem that has bloomed into a deadly disaster: Homelessness. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Iowa guard Kathleen Doyle celebrates during the second half of the team’s NCAA college basketball game against Iowa State, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, in Ames, Iowa. Iowa won 61-55. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
In this Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, photo, tourists walk past the discoloured wall of the Taj Mahal caused by environmental pollution which stands out in sharp contrast against the cleanup one in Agra, India. Authorities in India are trying to figure out how workers will scale the Taj Mahal’s majestic but delicate dome as they complete the first thorough cleaning of the World Heritage site since it was built 369 years ago. Work on the mausoleum’s minarets and walls is almost finished, after workers began the makeover in mid-2015. They’ve been using a natural mud paste to remove yellow discoloration and return the marble to its original brilliant white. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, center, speaks to people wounded during clashes with police in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. The former president of Georgia who has become Ukraine’s top opposition politician said on Wednesday that he would not give himself up to authorities after the prosecutors issued an ultimatum. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the annual Volunteer of Russia 2017 award ceremony at the Megasport Sport Palace in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Putin has moved an inch closer to announcing his intention to seek re-election in the next March’s vote, saying he would weigh the move based on public support.(Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Sabrina Carpenter performs in concert during Q102’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2017 at the Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, in Philadelphia. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP)
In this Dec. 5, 2017 photo, a man walks past a wall mural depicting a child superimposed on a representation of the Brazilian national flag, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. After suffering through the deepest recession in its modern history, the largest corruption scandal in Latin America and a year under a deeply unpopular president, Brazilians are deeply frustrated and some are looking to extreme solutions. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Willie Taggart, left, is greeted by Florida State University president John Thrasher and his wife, Jean, before being introduced as the school’s new NCAA college football head coach, in Tallahassee, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser)
Kathryn and her friends come to see the burned Hawaiian Village apartments in downtown Ventura on Wed., Dec. 6, 2017. The large complex burned in the Thomas fire. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) . .
Members of parliament, from left, Cathy McGowan, Adam Brandt and Andrew Wilkie celebrate the passing of the Marriage Amendment Bill in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Gay marriage was endorsed by 62 percent of Australian voters who responded to a government-commissioned postal ballot by last month. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)
A boy plays soccer next to soldiers on patrol during an operation in the Mangueira slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Police in Rio de Janeiro captured one of Brazil’s most wanted drug bosses Wednesday, a rare victory for authorities struggling to curb rising violence a year after the city hosted the Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A model presents a creation at Chanel’s pre-fall Metiers d’Art fashion show in the new Elbphilharmonie concert house in Hamburg, northern Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, right, celebrates after scoring his side’s seventh goal during the Champions League Group E soccer match between Liverpool and Spartak Moscow at Anfield, Liverpool, England, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)
Feyenoord’s fans light up flares during a Champions League Group F soccer match between Feyenoord and Napoli at the Kuip stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Brazil’s Flamengo Rever, center, celebrates his goal against Argentina’s Independiente during a Copa Sudamericana first leg final soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Sulak Sivaraksa pauses outside a military court Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand as he walks in to find out whether military prosecutor has proceeded with the indictment against him on lese majeste. A Thai military court has delayed a decision on whether to prosecute the prominent historian and social critic who suggested that a famed duel on elephant-back won by a Thai king against a Burmese prince 500 years ago may not actually have happened. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
From left, Hong Kong’s young democracy leaders Lester Shum, Joshua Wong and Alex Chow pose for photographers in front of the High Court in Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Wong faces a possible new prison sentence in a case stemming from 2014 protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city. He’s among a group of activists awaiting sentencing following their convictions months earlier. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
VPro-independence Catalan supporters gather to begin a demonstration near the EU quarter in Brussels on Thursday , Dec. 7, 2017. Thousands of Pro-Catalan supporters rallied in Brussels on Thursday, two weeks before Spanish regional elections. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)