good afternoon. thanks for joining us. >> we're on early at 3:00 this an afternoon to bring you updates on the north bay wildfires. >> the fires in lake and mendocino county, more than 120,000 acres now charred. the largest fire is the atlas fire in napa county topping 42,000 acres. the tubbs fire at 28,000 acres. the redwood fire is 30,000 acres. patrick fire at more than 9,500 acres. at least 3,500 structures have been destroyed across the state. >> we are getting a new look at the devastation in santa rosa. look at this. sky 7 over head in the city today, blocks and blocks and

blocks obliterated. all gone. other new information received is that the death toll for all the fires including all of the fires is now at 21. but hundreds are still unaccounted for. >> that damage is hard to watch, isn't it? incredible. this afternoon, santa rosa police confirmed a body was found at journey's end mobile home park. >> alyssa harrington joining us live from there. alyssa? >> reporter: there's crime scene tape surrounding the area where the body was found. journey's end mobile home park. and we did just learn that that is the body of linda tooney, 69 years old. her daughter posted this note on facebook. it says, my mother's remains have been found at her home at journey's end. may she rest in peace. my sweet mama. police tell me it was a family member of the victim that made that very sad discovery around noon today. they were here searching through her burned home. there are so many people missing, the latest numbers more

than 600 people unaccounted for and that number may seem staggering. i want people at home to know that cell phone service is almost nonxis ent in places up here and the same for internet. it is difficult for people to connect. i talked to a woman desperately searching for her mother. this is a picture of her. her name is sharon ray robinson. sharon is 79 years old, 5'4" tall and lived off donner drive in the rebel road area. that entire neighborhood was wiped out by the fire. that woman called shelters and called hospitals. she just wants to find her mom. >> she's 79 years old and she does have some memory issues. her car is still in her garage. i went to her car yesterday. everything is gone. and her car's still there. i found her cat. she wouldn't have left voluntarily without her cat. >> reporter: if you think you have seen sharon, please call police. some people had to vaut so quickly they didn't have time to

grab their phones, medication, things like that. back here, i want to show you cal fire crews have been searching through the rubble and once they clear an area, they tie a pink ribbon. a lot of worried family members are sharing information on social media. if your loved one is found, the best thing to do is contact authorities to update their list because there's so much work to do up here. of course, so many people still missing. reporting live in santa rosa, elissa harrington, nbc 7 news. >> thank you. many residents may wait days to return to their homes. >> some people going home for a short time today. >> for a short time, trying to get people back in the homes for medication and urgent things and some escorts. we can't do that anymore. don't come to the site an expect to get in. stay away from the evacuation areas. we still can't get in there. >> sky 7 flew where the fire

threatened homes earlier today. the sheriff believes that it could take until at least monday before people can return to the homes and some of the areas currently under evacuation orders. today the solano county sheriff ordered evacuations north of fairfield saying the fire jumped a major roadway and moved southeast. deputies are making sure homes and businesses have been cleared out. abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live on a fire line. leslie? >> reporter: that's right, dan. here i can say all day long there's been a feeling of kind of watch and wait. it still things appear to be somewhat under control at this point. but the fire's not contained and there are a lot of forecasts about the wind whipping up and causing problems here. the fire is just over this hill. crews from reno, cal fire have gone down this road. they have taken bulldozers and heavy equipment down there earlier and set a backfire up above those ridges of hills

behind me. you can see the smoke rising. that is where the edge of the fire is. they're keeping a close eye on it. wefr we are in a safe spot here but they have told people living in this area off of green valley road to evacuate. >> we live in green valley, and i understand they lost a house there last night. the wind is the deal. you know? when we're in this trailer here and it gets buffeted by the wind occasionally in the middle of the night you think what's happening? firefighters up there, they're working hard. everyone's just been so professional and taking care of everybody. and, you know, everybody comes together. >> reporter: ken emerson got out with his dogs and two cats. they're living for now in his tiny airstream trailer at the solano college evacuation center. from there we drove up wooden valley road to 121 where you can see how the atlas creek fire jumped across the road at one

point near 128. firefighters saved homes. the land around them is scorched. hot spots are still evident everywhere. residents evacuated not only green valley, but al the entire rancho solano golf course community where families were packing up this afternoon and warned about looters. so behind me, a lot of smoke up in those hills. we do not see any kind of a ridge or wall of flame at this point. again, we're in a safe spot. we're watching the fire crews come and go from here as they use this as kind of a stopping point. they hope, for the fire. evacuees told me that they were told to be sure not to pack up belongings ahead of time, that there were a lot of car break-ins that they were told to pack when they're ready to launch off and go out the door.

that's what they were doing. as you saw there, a lot of people with pets and animals in tow. i think for everyone we have talked to today it feels like the calm that everyone hopes is not a firestorm here in fairfield, i'm leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> let's hope not. >> thank you. well, the smoke from the wildfires affecting bay area airports. >> you can see that here and of course sfo where a traffic management program is in effect now for arriving flights. because of that, some delayed up to two and a half hours. >> this will last through the night and could be extended if visibility remains low. ash is falling in parts of the bay area, too. perhaps where you live. let's go to spencer for more on the conditions out there. spencer? >> dan, numerous reports of ash falling from the smoke clouds. just recently, a call of nevada of ash on cars and here's live doppler 7. see the cloudy look. it's the smoke from the fires. this is the way it looks on the black and white satellite.

you can see large clouds of smoke blown southward by the northerly wind and blowing into the densely populated areas of the bay area and of course that produces a significant health hazard. right now, wind in santa rosa gusting at 24 miles per hour. again, down from the northwest sweeping the smoke across other regions of the bay area. gusts over 24 hours will diminish significantly in the early morning and overnight hours and winds increase again late tomorrow afternoon and of course with the continuing low humidity and the gusty wind, high fire danger, red flag warnings for the north bay to 5:00 p.m. tomorrow, east bay and the santa cruz mountains from 11:00 p.m. today to 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. look at the smoke in the air from the east bay hills camera and unhealthful air quality in the north bay. it's unhealthful in all regions of the bay area tomorrow. and we don't see any reason why the air quality to improve significantly over several days.

i'll have a full look at the forecast in a few minutes. dan? >> thanks very much. just really tough. governor brown says the damage total from the fires into the billions and billions of dollars. >> we've had big fires in the past. this is one of the biggest, most serious. it's not over. with a warming climate and dry weather and reducing moisture, these kind of catastrophes have happened and will continue to happen and we have to be prepared to do everything we can to mitigate. >> the governor says he's encouraged by the promise of federal aid from washington. officials also try to reassure californians that everything possible is being done to battle these blazes. >> state invested decades ago in wild land fire response and we have never once been hindered by our ability to gain resources and access resources to fight these fires. the governor and legislature committed an enthat's why the state is so successful in getting resources.

>> that man, the cal fire director, says additional help is coming in from out of state. all right. we just got some new information in. i was going to tell you a mandatory evacuation order has been issued for parts of call stto ga and alert that says all of calstoga is under mandatory evacuation. get out is the message. today it was north of grant street people told to get out. officials are concerned about the ridge into the entire area as winds pick up. abc7 news reporter matt keller has more. >> reporter: another smoky sun rise, another mandatory evacuation order. roadblocks are set up around calistoga. >> head through napa? >> reporter: latest evacuations for residents north of grant street. >> they just came and knocked on the door and let us know it's time to go. >> reporter: county

estimate 2,000 out of 5,000 residents here have been evacuated from their homes. >> it remains to be seen. the rest will have to be evacuated. it is on advisory evacuation. >> i've never cried more in the last two days. >> reporter: eric webb owned a resort. this promotional video shows what you can normally expect. >> exclusive retreat. leave the busy world behind. >> reporter: firestorm sunday night into monday morning and they stayed put and fought off the flames. >> hundred-foot fireballs, 360. one side of the property and we defend that then the wind shift and from another side and defend that. >> reporter: he is happy the place is standing and knows many of the neighborhoods weren't so lucky. >> i drove down the street and i looked at what my neighbors will go home to. none of them have seen it. because they evacuated and we stayed the whole time. i just start sobbing because i realize that could have been me, right? >> reporter: the shelter at the

fairgrounds closed and the evacuees are told to go to the napa valley college gymnasium. >> the shelter at the fairgrounds forced to close and the evacuees are now being told to go to the napa valley college gymnasium. once again, all of cali

redwood complex fire in mendocino county burned 32,000 acres. cal fire says overall crews are making good progress. the fire has -- was 5% contained at last report. firefighters do have control lines around the fire from reece canyon north to the golden rule trailer home park. they're trying to protect structured not damaged or burned. 250 homes have been destroyed there. the fire, though, still threatening 800 structures. back in santa rosa, oakmont,

flames destroyed two homes. the home belongs to sonoma county supervisor garin. firefighters worked hard to save the neighborhood. >> deploying hoses around structures as fire creeped down. this is a large area, a big community. firefighters were jumping from house to house as quickly as possible to really make the biggest gains they could in the amount of time with the resources they had. >> evacuation order is still in effect for this neighborhood. fire officials are urging residents to stay away. it is still very smoky. >> firefighters say it is not the fire from santa rosa earlier this week. but the weather could change, of course. so they want to keep people out. >> abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow is in another neighborhood decimated by the flames. >> reporter: here on crystal drive in santo ra so, it's hard to make out where one room ends

and another begins. here's signs of what was probably someone's bedroom. the big concern today are the shifting winds. a wind advisory is issued with gusts of 50 miles per hour expected later today. the big issue that those winds could then pick up embers and take them to areas that have so been spared by the fire. 3,500 homes and structures destroyed. the physical devastation eclipsed only by the loss of life. 21 deaths. 380 people missing. along with fear and grief comes extreme uncertainty. a lot of the people we have been speaking with, mandatory evacuation zones, say they have no idea if their house is still standing. in santa rosa, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. >> really is just hard to take in the scope of this disaster and continuing to expand. question is, of course, the key factor is the weather and the wind. >> doesn't look like it's going

to the right direction for us, spencer. >> we continue to have gusty winds, especially the higher elevations. here's a look at live doppler 7. see the haze produced by the smoke and here's a look, again, at our black and white satellite image with the cloud of smoke swept southward and eastward with that generally northerly wind and why it's sweeping into the densely populated areas. look at the wind gust animation, into the evening hours, it will remain breezy to gusty up in the north bay and gusty across the region during the early morning and overnight hours and see wind generally tapering off a little bit by tomorrow afternoon. alm though it remains breezy up in the north bay where the fires are burning. i'll go to the red flag warning and worth repeetding across the north bay. from 5:00 this afternoon to tomorrow afternoon and over the east bay and the santa cruz mountains from 11:00 tonight to

5:00 tomorrow afternoon it remains very -- we'll have very dry conditions with low humidity between 10 and 20% and winds will remain gusty, potentially up to 50 miles per hour. the higher elevations. look at this smoke from the east bay hills camera. air quality is going to be very poor to unhealthy and visibility is reduced and that is con trikted to significant flight delays at sfo, up to one hour and 50 minutes. almost two hours. this is the view from sutro tower over san francisco. current temperature readings in the mid to upper 60s. san francisco, mountain view and san jose and 61 at half moon bay. it's hazy and smoky and current temperature readings in the 70s at santa rosa, 69 degrees right now in napa. and as we look at smoke over the east bay hills or from the camera, these are the forecast

futures. poor air quality next several days. high fire danger through tomorrow at least and then warm this weekend and remain dry. that could cause high fire danger to persist. overnight lows generally in the upper 40s to low 50s. tomorrow's highs from low 60s at the coast to 70s inland and here's the accuweather 7-day forecast. there's that warm-up over the weekend with high temperatures climbing into the mid-80s inland and likely although winds may diminish into the weekend, humidity will remain low and that will keep the risk of fires spreading with us through the weekend. it's not a good outlook right now. >> doesn't improve for days, spencer. >> not for several days. >> all right. >> thank you. >> okay. with the poor air quality, masks and respirators are in high demand. >> the popular item flying

as you know, too many north bay neighborhoods have been reduced to ashes. >> abc7 news anchor reggie aqui shows you photos with 360-degree view from santa rosa to reveal the utter devastation caused by the wildfires. >> on the big screen here, a santa rosa neighborhood. this is 1915 camino del prada. imagine the hilton hotel that burned to the ground in santa rosa, across 101 to the west and then you are in this neighborhood. this is what it looked like prior to the fire. this is a typical santa rosa neighborhood. you have a lot of cul-de-sacs and many single family homes. now i'm going to show you what it looks like today. we went to that neighborhood. we took a 360 camera.

and this is what you see now. essentially, nothing is left. the homes burned to the ground. the only thing left some file cabinets, occasionally you will see a fireplace. but in this 360 view, i don't even see one home still standing. and this is a situation that you're going to find throughout this neighborhood. in fact, we took a number of photographs as you can see on the web page here. dogwood drive. san miguel road. another area on san miguel road. at intersections throughout the neighborhood. what we found was essentially the same. nothing left in this neighborhood. maybe the occasional structure still standing but that's the exception. not the rule. we do have this located on our web page. jst go to abc7news.com and see 360 photos. click there and you can see look around for yourself of what is not left in much of santa rosa. reggie aqui, abc7 news.

well, air quality is an a concern all around the bay area. probably where you live and dust masks, respirators in high demand. abc7 news at the hardware store as people stopped by to pick up supplies. one of the more popular items is n-95 respirator designed to protect and filter out at least 95% of particles such as dust and mold, tiny matter that's such a problem. stores are having a tough time keeping them in stock. >> those products come in, receiving teams pulling that out as quickly as we can and it's selling as it hits the floor. >> spare the air alert in effect today and tomorrow. the bay area air quality management district also issued a health advisory because of really, really dirty air. >> to be taken seriously. my kids practice this for sports

as you have heard, winds in the north bay are sadly expected to pick up again in the next couple of hours making things tougher and more treacherous for firefighters. >> residents of the city of napa are at a town hall meeting learning what to do if they need to evacuate. >> david louie is live where the meeting is apparently still going on, david. >> reporter: the meeting is just wrapped up a few seconds ago and holding two town hall meetings today at napa. one at the school and one at 6:00 at napa city hall. residents are very anxious. they have lots of questions and seeking answers. about 300 people packed the multipurpose room at the school. many of them standing at the back of the room and others outside listening to loudspeakers. on stage were city officials, the police and fire chief representatives from cal fire, pg & e and other agencies and with so many people without power and internet, the city

wanted to dispel rumors. one to be sure to get out is the water is safe to drink in napa except for a small area around silverado country club. but the big concern is to the changing weather conditions predicted for tonight and the possibility of evacuations. the fire chief addressed this and then we got reaction from a resident who says she's getting prepared. >> so when we say go, you're ready to go, when we say go, we want you to know you need to go and go away for four to seven days at a minimum. it's too hard to evacuate you first of all. second of all, allow you to come back in and then the wind changes in 12 hours. >> my husband packed up momentos and things from the house. for me, it is packing up the kids and cat and making sure we are all safe. that's the most important thing. >> reporter: abigail and her husband have done exactly what city leaders want residents to

do. be prepared to leave quickly with the valuables. they also suggested a plan ahead for a place to go such as a friend's house. city officials in napa say they're keeping a close eye on the east side of town with tonight's red flag warning. but other parts of napa still are under potential risk. if evacuations are needed the orders will come from cal fire and the central incident command post. live in napa, abc7 news. >> good afternoon. thank you. if you want to help, you can text to donate just text words redcross to 90999. that sends $10 to the red cross and if you want to volunteer, 707-577-7600. >> and you can get the latest news any time with the abc7 news app. be sure to enable push alerts to be the first to know about breaking news where you live. >> thank you for joining us for this special edition of abc7 news at 3:00. we'll be back at 4:00.

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