good afternoon. thanks for joining us. sgh we're on a bit earlier this afternoon bringing do you the latest on the massive north bay wildfires. >> authorities say a total of 32 people have now perished in fires. that includes new figures released from sonoma county where the number dead is 18. >> investigators found the remains of another person in the rubble of the journey's end mobile home park in santa rosa. they have not confirmed the person is being counted among the dead. hundreds of people have been reported missing. 3500 structures have been burned. that includes 5% of the housing in the city of the san ta rosa. >> there's a mandatory

evacuation of family for north of east napa street to the end of east napa street. >> officials are reminding evacuees there will be no questions about immigration status asked at any of the shelters. rescued animals are being taken to the sonoma county fairgrounds. >> let's take a look at the size of the fires. these numbers are mind boggling. a total of 183,000 acres have burned so far. the largest is the atlas fire at 48,000 acres. the nuns, adobe fires have scorched 44,000 acres so far. >> the tubbs far scarred 34,000 acres. the pocket fire in sonoma county has charred 10,000 acres. >> the sulphur fire has eaten up

2500 acres. containment is between 5 to 55%. >> i want to speak to those people impacted. all of us here in the state operation center, those involved in the massive response efforts to these fires are thinking about you. our hearts go out to o ow affected by the fires and we understand lives have been changed forever by these events. this is difficult. we are dedicated to helping you and the first responders out there be able to mitigate the situation. we're going to get through this, however. the emergency is not over. we continue to work at it but we are seeing some great progress

in some of the areas that the fires have impacted. >> some of the people, the oes director was talking about are from calistouga. the city remains under evacuation order. >> laura anthony has been on the front lines with those firefighters and join us with more. >> reporter: there's 25% containment here on the tubbs fire. most of the fire fight keeps moving up mount st. helena. this is the robert louis stephenson state park. you can see how the ground here has been charred all the way up to the highway. they are fine with that at this point. they are using the highway as a line of demarcation. except for this home destroyed on the out skirts of town. it's so far, so good where one family left a message and a snack for firefighters outside

their evacuated home. >> we don't feel like we're in imminent changer. >> reporter: others have chosen to stay. this couple told us they are feeling a bit more at ease now that the stubborn tubbs fire is 25% contained. >> i have a cat that's semi ferral and at least not transportable and i'm not leaving here. we don't feel like we need to at this point. >> reporter: firefighters try to hold the line above highway 29. crews hit this flare up from the ground long before it could jump the roadway. in the meantime near the summit of mount st. helena put water on the flames. >> the fires across the state and the local area. we're doing the best we can with the resources at scene. >> reporter: we're back live

here. we're showing you a dozer line that the fire crews have dug here. next to highway 29. so far we've seen that the fire has stayed on the west side and the south side of that dozer line. that is the hope tonight. even as the winds may pick up that they can keep this fire on this side, the west side of the highway. as we speak larry, there's a helicopter above me about to make another water drop. this activity is continuing. folks down the way are keeping a close eye on things. >> there's a lot of concern that the winds will increase. let's get more on the conditions and the winds that may be coming. >> the winds are really going to increase later on tonight. right now firefighters are getting a much needed break. live doppler 7 showing you clear

conditions across the bay area. the winds are 15 miles or less. they will ramp up later on tonight. as they do the humidity values you're seeing here are not going to be this high. actually right now we have teens for fairfield, santa rosa, concord. some of those will go down to the single digits which is a big concern as we head towards tomorrow. red flag warning for the north and east bay hills begins for 5:00 tonight. gusts may reach 40 to 60 miles an hour in the hills. at the lower elevations 30 to 5 miles an hour and the north bay valleys will go under the red flag warning at 11:00 tonight. humidity will be low. any fires that develop will rapidly spread. this will not be good for the north bay wildfires. we also have a wind advisory for the hills. gusts to 50 miles an hour or higher could take down more trees and power lines. take a look at the wind gusts. 11:00 p.m. they begin to ramp up into the morning hours and then they begin to taper gradually

tomorrow afternoon. air quality as we pan around the bay area from our east bay hills area not so great because of the smoke and here's a look at forecast. poor to unhealthy both saturday and sunday. spare the air alerts are up. visibility is low. santa rosa four miles, down to five miles in oakland. definitely not a good situation for the crews on the fire lines later on today going into early tomorrow morning. right now they are getting a much needed break. >> thank you. the wind is the last thing they need up there. >> flames from the nuns fire getting dangerously close to homes that are west. >> some residents refuse to evacuate and took a stand against flames. leslie is live along dry creek road with the latest. >> reporter: i'm right here at dry creek road and orchard avenue. this is like the ground zero for people whose homes are back up the road here.

i've talked to a lot of desperate people worried about their homes. even loved ones who chose to stay on this section of road between here and the oakville grade to the north. one woman drove up to us in panic over her husband. >> he decided he's going to save our driveway and there's seven homes up there. he's up there fighting the fire now. we're hoping that -- it's two guys. hopefully they both get out okay. >> reporter: she got one phone call from him saying he was fighting flames. we drove up part of dry creek road. we tried to go up the driveway along with the u.s. forest service crew. we were not able to locate her husband. fire crews were hosing down dry dru brush and pumping water out of backyard pools. the low line closer and closer to some homes along dry creek

road. a lot of worries about a shift in the wind direction and the speed of the wind. we notice the wind shift here. mountains back there. now it's totally obscured by the smoke. we're noticing the smoke thick tennesseei i enning up here. this is an area where people are able to drive up through. fire officials say drive creek road is where they are drawing a line in the sand. they've got to the right here just past this vineyard bulldozers and fire retardant lined up ready to go. firefighters are on the left side of the road and they're going to hold the line here. if the fire and the wind whips up and starts come sboog the homes and trying to cross dry creek road.

officials searching the journey and mobile home park in santa rosa made a grim discovery today. >> eric thomas is there with more. >> reporter: you're right. they expect to find one more body that used to be journey mobile home park. this is all that's left of that 160 lots of retirement living. more than 100 units destroyed. let's show you the overhead view from droneview 7. we got permission to fly over this area. we see overhead these mobile homes were flattened and charred. they are going from literally what used to be door to door to find out if there are people in here. earlier this week, on wednesday, 69-year-old linda tunas' body

was discovered. most of the other elderly residents were evacuated before the flames movered in. the sheriff's department said they have specific reports of missing people. that's what they are looking for but they don't rule out the possibility of finding other besid bodies. there's more than 50 professional search and rescue and more volunteers. let's hear what sonoma county has to say. >> early in the day search and rescue teams recovered one person. there's still one more person that we believe we'll find. it's being searched by 50 volunteers from four different counties. >> reporter: now, those four different counties are sonoma, marin, monterey and the alemeda county sheriff ee's office. they bring special expertise to this job. >> well we've have some expertise in mass casualty and

mass fatality because of the ghostship warehouse fire. we want to make sure we do things correctly with evidence recovery. >> reporter: they are helping to run the operation center up here. they are helping with 3-d mapping. they have infrared drones they are using to pinpoint hot spots in here. once again this used to be and it's amazing to look at, more than 160 lots of mobile homes that elderly, retired people live in. now it's just one big flattened, charred mess. one law enforcement official described it to us earlier as one big ghostship. they don't and hope not to find anywhere near that number of victims in here. right now they are talking about two but they leave open the possibility of more. erc thomas, abc 7 news. >> thank you. newer homes in the rural areas of sonoma and napa

counties were constructed under some of the toughest fire buildings codes in the nation. they weren't enough to protect structures against the intensity of these flames. >> matt's dream home completely wiped out. he and his neighbors barely escaped the sering flames that engulfed the ridge line. it all went up in a matter of minutes. he was stunned by what he saw when he returned to the home he spent three years building. >> there's not a thing left. it's just ash. i just don't understand. we did everything we're supposed to do in terms of the rig stuff. we built stone. we did stucco. we did fire retardant doors. everything they told us to do and in this case it didn't matter. >> the fire burned so hot it simply melted his tile roof. he described the fire as a tidal wave of

just a couple hours ago we learned about the efforts in sonoma county. >> officials are getting closer to getting keiser hospital back open. >> everybody spoke at today's news conference suppretressed patience. >> we're doing the best we can. we have active fire fighting and people trying to repopulate into the city. there's a lot of good work going on here. please bear with us. we're with you. we will always be with you. >> we need your cooperation out on the roadways. it's very dangerous out there right now. the situation is tenuous at best. the fire is still very active and with the wind warnings coming up, we need you to be extra diligent and patient with

everybody. many of them closing certain roadways in danger zones deemed dangerous by cal fire and other agencies. we cannot let you in there.ere.. >> it's very important that people stay out of those areas. you heard it from our partners behind me. we're working and we have officers in those areas try to deal with the issues of people coming into those areas either for reasons they're not suppose to be in there or trying to get back and see the properties. we're trying to get those areas opened. i know it's frustrating. we're working through the process. we'll get there. we're doing everything we can to bring this community back into some sense of normalcy. >> i did watch that entire news conference and they warned if you try to get into an area that's closed, you could be

arrested. take it seriously. >> they don't want people wandering in there for sure. >> tech workers giving evacuees a new tool to see what happened on their block, possibly to their home. >> chris nguyen here so show us how it works. chris. >> he's a data architect out of oakland. he wanted to help people impacted by the fire. using satellite images he created a special map that anyone can access through a website called map box. we're going to walk you through. we pulled up the city of santa rosa. we want to point out the red sections on the screen, that's vegetation not to be confused with fire or areas that were destroyed by the fire. let's expand the map for our viewers at home. this is the fountain grove neighborhood of santa rosa. so many homes destroyed. the gray showing the homes that been reduced to rubble. if we move the map to the north, you can see here that the screen

indicates -- the red indicating the vegetation. a number of these homes north of fur ridge park were spared from the fire. it's an example of the differences that we're seeing from neighborhood to neighborhood and you can see in the corner here that this map was last updated at noon yesterday. the source is digital globe. the developer, his name is robin craft. he's asking companies to help by providing updated satellite images so he can incorporate the latest information. we posted a link on our website for you, abc7news.com. >> people want that block by block visual. that's very good. thank you for sharing that. everybody's watching out for changes in the

you may have noticed the air quality has improved around the bay. >> slightly, i think. live picture of san francisco from our sutro tower camera. they're cautioning people to take precautions and stay indoors with windows closed as much as possible. they have opened libraries for those needing a break from the smoky air. >> firefighters are watching closely. we have a look at what they can expect this weekend. >> they'll be seeing gusty winds as early as later on tonight. let me show you forecasts for cal tonight. i know the plan is for it to still go on. they are playing washington state and berkeley tonight. 67 degrees with hazy skies, breezy conditions. certainly will be smoky. temperature will drop down to about 59 degrees as you check out live doppler 7 right now. skies are clear at this hour. sfo continues to experience

delays of almost three hours on arriving flights because of the smoke. keep this in mind. here's a live look. you can see how bad the air quality is at sfo. temperatures right now, 67 in san francisco. here in the 70s, oakland, san jose, half-moon bay. it's hard to see much because of that smoke. temperature 83 in santa rosa. kgo roof camera, you can see how dirty the air is. winds are light. that's allowing the smoke to settle. smoky skies through the weekend. there's chance of showers next week which is encouraging for firefighters. tonight at 5:00 winds along the coast will begin to increase. notice the north wind to about 34 miles an hour. that's the concern in is a north, northeasterly wind that will dry out the atmosphere.

we go into the morning hours. the humidity value is lower. by 3:00 p.m., saturday afternoon relative humidity. it's going to be another hazy, windy morning. smoke will be around and continue to fill our skies. temperatures do come up. air quality not getting better any time soon. you take a look at the next four days. poor to unhealthy really right on through sunday. monday begin to see some areas go to moderate but still poor for those of you who have respiratory issues. next week, next thursday we're watching the system. rain line ships to lake county. 9:00 p.m. into the rest of the north bay. by 11:00 p.m. those showers beginning to spread. friday morning looks like more showers coming. this would be great for the

firefighters. humidity comes up and showers help them out. smoky, gusty for your saturday. winds do relax on sunday. the temperatures will come up, 70s to 90s. much cooler as we head towards the middle and latter part of the workweek when the chance of showers comes in. keep track of live doppler 7 any time you want. >> thank you. when we return, man who has

we wanted to show you this picture posted on facebook. she said this her dad putting up a flag in front of their burned out home. she said this is what's left of the home. man is describing escaping a deadly inferno in the dark has flames destroyed his family's neighborhood in santa rosa.

>> i was this bed and heard there was fire in the yard and we might have to leave and i outside in my pants. >> reporter: travis shot this video. 20 seconds of footage in all. >> there was another five minutes of that driving down that hill. >> reporter: every frame captured the horror of a tidal wave incinerating homes. >> even 30 seconds later after that i couldn't see anything. i ended up crashing my car into a boulder. >> reporter: his parents jumped into their cars. >> my mom couldn't see anything and kept driving into drive ways and getting lost. she bailed her suv and got in my dad's truck. he couldn't see. he had hit a ditch and loths a tire and took the same drive i took but on a rim. >> reporter: the bmw appears to be intact exactly where he left it. it was a different story for his father's pick up. >> we left in three cars and

drove off in three quarters of car. >> my dad asked how i department with the power lines. i said what power lines. they hadn't fallen when i drove past. >> reporter: he's hoping to recover a memory, maybe two at home. >> if i find a single knickknack, a metal figure that survived, i feel like i won. >> i can't imagine driving through that. you can't see at all. it's been an out pouring of support for fire victims. stanford stepping up with a donation drive. asking fans to bring donations to tomorrow's homecoming game. >> doe naenations the tents, wa masks phone charges. they'll be accepted at the gate. world news is coming up next. >> all of us here at abc 7 news,

thanks for joining us. next newscast, 4:00 p.m. with the latest on the north bay fires. see you then. tonight several breaking headlines. the las vegas massacre. the sheriff late today and the new timeline now revealed tonight. when did the hero security guard did shot? when did the massacre begin and how long did it take for police to arrive as we also learn who else, the gunman, was aiming for. also the health care bombshell. president trump's midnight move. his effort to disassemble obamacare killing billions in subsidies that help cover the costs of care. your will hear from american families affected. the iran nuclear deal tonight. the president revealing he will not certify it calling it unacceptable. worldwide reaction coming in. the new concern in california at this hour. the wildfires and the death toll growing, worsening winds expected this weekend