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gyrocopter went down in deep mud near tampa. then the sheriff's helicopter that came to rescue him also went down. wright posted a video of himself covered in mud after the second crash. he said he didn't want to go in another helicopter. also sending his appreciation to friends and family. >> thank you for the messages. i can't thank you enough. it's been really, really overwhelming. i think you're really great. >> you see wright there laying down, recovering at home. on the day of the crashes he was flown to safety in a coast guard helicopter despite saying he didn't want to go in one. >> hope he'll be back on his feet soon. a washington state mom had just sat down to feed her newborn when she heard a loud bang and her lap was filled with leaves and twigs. >> it turned out a tree toppled over and crashed onto her house. amazingly it missed hitting them by just a few feet. >> then i just hear like this loud crash to the side and i

just see like the roof, like this huge hole just pop into the roof. if i had just been a couple feet over like i would have been hit by debris from the house, and you know, my daughter could have been hit. so i just feel like god was watching over us today. >> they are both okay, but the house is not. it's been red tagged and it's considered too dangerous to enter. coming up, the teenage boy who's making thousands of dollars a month with sexy whispers. >> he's part of a growing phenomenon called the asmr boyfriend.

♪ time can never mend the ♪ time can never mend the careless whispers of a good friend ♪ this morning we're hearing about a movement that takes those careless whispers to a whole new level. >> all right, it's called asmr.

we'll tell you what exactly that means in just a minute. but there are countless videos on youtube using intimate sounds to trigger a physical response. take a listen. [ whispering ] >> i hope i can give you lots of tingles today. [ crunching ] >> oh my god, i hear this every morning from janai. so you get the idea. this morning we're meeting a teenager who's part of the growing number of asmr boyfriends. >> they are young men, in this case underaged, talking sexy into the mic, with a goal they say of helping women get a better night's sleep. some critics say it's nothing to do with sleep. here's abc's kalie har kung. [ whispering ] >> welcome back. i'm certainly glad you could join me today. >> reporter: 17-year-old owen dennis riley looks like the perfect boyfriend who says all the right things. [ whispering ] >> is anything else bothering you? >> reporter: owen isn't anyone's boyfriend, he just plays one on youtube. [ whispering ] >> anyways, i'm glad if i was

able to help you. >> reporter: his channel, which has over 500,000 subscribers, is dennis asmr, part of a growing trend of videos known as asmr boyfriend role play. owen is using the autonomous sensory meridian response, asmr, where certain audiovisuals cause some people to experience a tingling, static-like sensation on the skin. those people say the experience is relaxing, sleep-inducing. then adding soothing words from a virtual partner, like owen, in this video called "boyfriend sings you to sleep." ♪ i felt it from the first embrace i shared with you ♪ >> a lot of people find it difficult to get to sleep sometimes. my videos work as a sound machine for the people that struggle with sleeping. >> reporter: the videos are made in this makeshift studio under owen's bunk bed. with the blessing of his parents. >> we're always going through the comments looking to see, because it is scary for us. our kid is out there, and who knows in the world that we live

in. i go through the comments and i'm looking. for the most part they seem to be a great community. we always want him to have integrity wi what he does. >> reporter: but some experts warn, this type of role playing can be problematic. >> there's no data to suggest that what he's doing is effective in any way and/or conducive to sleep. he does hit on the whispering, he does integrate brushes and other sounds throughout his videos. but he also has a lot of distracting content that would potentially counterbalance what we're going for with asmr, which is to soothe the senses, calm you down. not be excitatory. not be stimulating in any way. >> reporter: especially when the role play can be intense, like this video called "jealous boyfriend" role play. >> he's really again perpetuating this message that you need someone to take care of you in order to self-soothe.

and that's not accurate. in fact, it's very problematic. especially if you're reaching i think a younger audience who maybe doesn't have realistic expectations for relationships or just happen to have them. >> my videos aren't saying every relationship is perfect, and i'm not trying to be unrealistic with it. i'm trying to take the positive elements from that and put it up there. [ whispering ] >> and i'll stay here until you sleep. >> our thanks to kaylee. i don't understand, why do you want a boy when you can have a man? turn off the lights, as teddy says -- [ whispering ] and light a candle! >> i'm just going to sit here and eat. oh, please don't breathe like that. [ whispering ] >> oh, yeah! is this what the story is about? it seems a little creepy, doesn't it? >> very much so. [ whispering ] >> you think so? [ crunching ] >> eww! [ whispering ] >> this is weird, don't you think?

>> it's weird! >> any chance i get to eat on tv. [ whispering ] >> i mean, janai, what do you think about this?

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history, which i just made up. the majority of you also thought i already had the job, so a surprise there. this reveal, this was the biggest surprise here. >> this was a good one. we were talking about it at my house. >> queen bey, i know she was happy. >> i'm sure she was proud. >> i didn't get a tweet or email or instagram post from her, but i could feel -- >> also, the star of this was the security guard. >> who people said they loved that. they also loved the little sashay. >> uh-huh. >> and the body roll. >> your moves were everything. >> the body roll here on set. >> matt, that's matt there. he did incredible. >> people said -- they called it all levels of extra. >> uh-huh. >> one person said it was the "bey-ist" announcement ever. >> accurate. >> a lot of y'all noticed again the body roll, then the security guard. on twitter alison said, best thing i saw all day, all week, all month, do you. chris said, i'm frickin' hollering, grade "a" content.

kelly cook said, dear beyonce, i'm not saying you should hire kenneth moton but he's got the steps. thanks to the new job he's available on weekends but he does have to be in bed like by 6:00 p.m., please consider. in the meantime, check out his audition tape. >> there you go. a lot more beyonce. what about kendis giving you a shout-out? do we name him? >> we do name him, because he said some nice things. except not in the video. but he gave the stamp of approval for the video, for the beyonce video. he was there in london showing off, blah, blah, blah. >> so sweet. >> that should have been the last time we saw kendis gibson on the air -- >> no, i don't think so. >> since he's on a completely different network we won't name. >> kendis wished you well in beating his record, he said he can't wait to see what three years on the show, all the fun you'll have. >> and i said i would never want to do that to him, i said he should be the record holder for that. >> he will hold the record. that's for sure. >> barry mitchell. >> our dear barry mitchell. >> our polka. he sent me this and i laughed. >> moton, putting folks to

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this morning on "world news now," the military assault now under way. >> turkey launches its battle against u.s. allies, the kurds, after president trump pulled u.s. troops from a depart of syria. republicans and world leaders slamming the decision. some concerned it could lead to a resurgence of isis. also this morning the impeachment standoff. president trump saying he could take his fight to the supreme court as his potenti we are followng breaking news right now in the east bay. there's a vegetation fire burning out of control and right now it's forcing evacuations. we want to show you where the fire is burning right now. it's just south of st. mary's

college on meryl circle north. this fire was reported around 1:00 or just before then. at last check it's burned at least 50 acres. it's zero percent contained. evacuations for the sanders ranch neighborhood. there's also an evacuation center that's been set up at st. monica's church at 1001 ka mee know pablo. residents are asked to lock their windows and doors and keep pets on leashes and only get their house.ems when leaving this tweet is from cal fire. they sent out this tweet saying where this evacuation center is. merill drive. they're giving us a sense of how much man power they're dedicating to the fire.

they're saying approximately 150 firefighters are committed to fighting this fire. so this is the last update we're getting from cal fire. we do know that pg&e has shut down power in moraga including in st. mary's college. they say pg&e has shut down power in the moraga area including our campus. they said oliver hall will be operational as it will have generation power. students are asked to take precautions because of the darkness. they gave a link for students to get more information. so we have crews who are headed to that fire to the evacuation center at st. monica's church right now. we wanted to let you know what's going on. there is a vegetation fire that right now is burning out of control. it's forcing evacuations in moraga. we want to check in with mike nicco. he has a current look at what the winds are doing. >> hi. i just drove through that area

on highway 24 about 15 minutes ago. you couldn't see it from the highway. you couldn't see the orange glow of the fire. couldn't see the smoke, but that would make sense because it is a very hilly area and also the winds are blowing from north to south which would push all the smoke south of 24 and push it away from 24 and push it away from morinda and lafayette. moraga is at about 500 feet elevation. i was looking at reporting stations. in the lower elevations the wind fairly quiet. oakland hills at about 20. i just looked to the southeast of moraga up at about 17 00 feet. the winds are gusting up to 32 miles per hour. so we definitely have some wind rolling through that area. i also noticed when i drove through there, it was a lot darker than normal. i can confirm they are without power. let's look at the humidity

levels. they're running extremely low. around 12% in the oakland hills. lo lostropis around 16%. the air is bone dry. there's a red flag warning out for the same area until 5:00 tonight. what we're going to continue to see are the winds. we talked about this yesterday at around 3:00 was going to be the height of the critical fire conditions, and that's what we're dealing with right now in all these areas in red and also we added the santa cruz mountains. the wind advisory is going to hang around until 3:00. a long way to go until conditions become conducive and easier for the firefighters. what they have working for them this morning is the fact that it's so cool out there up in the east bay hills, it's mid 50s right now. so the heat is not an issue. it's going to be a very windy and wind-driven fire that's going to continue to be the issue. >> all right. thank you, mike.

if you're just joining us, we are following breaking news in the east bay. a vegetation fire right now is burning out of control. there have been evacuations ordered in morago. we want to show you where the fire is burning south of st. mary's college on merrill circle north. the fire was reported just before 1:00 this morning. when we last checked, the fire has burned anywhere between 50 to 60 acres. it's zero percent contained. there have been evacuations ordered for people living in the sanders ranch neighborhood. we've learned there's an evacuation center set up at st. monica's church in morraga. 1001 ka mee know pablo. residents are asked to lock their windows and doors and keep pets on leashes and only get what is essential when they get ready to leave their homes. we're looking at the response to this. this is a tweet we saw from cal

fire. they're calling it the merrill fire. in contra costa county, about 50 acres. they have committed about 150 firefighters to try to get this fire under control. this gives us a sense of the man power they're putting behind the fire to try to make sure it doesn't spread in the residential area. pg&e shut down power in the area. the college says pentagon has shut down power in the moraga area but they said oliver hall will be operational because they have generational power, and they asked student to be cautious because darkness. they gave a link for students to visit if they had more questions

or wanted more information. as far as we know the college doesn't appear to be threatened at this time. so we're going to keep looking at that just to make sure that everyone there is safe. we have crews headed to the fire and also to that evacuation center at st. monica's church. this is this has always been the concern when we talk about these high winds that we've been having with the red flag warnings. i know drew and mike, you both have been watching this just to see what was going to happen and make sure that something like this was on our radar and didn't happen. you can't prevent it, but we always knew this was a risk. >> definitely. we knew the heightened fire conditions were going to come in during the overnight hours and catch people off guard. a lot of people are sleeping or a lot of people in moroga are being woken up rudely by the events in the evacuations that are occurring. i'm putting the map together to show you where our two closest stations are, and the winds that are blowing in the particular

areas. the one to the right of your screen or to the right of moraga, about three miles away the winds are faster at about 1700 feet, but then you've got grizzly pe grizzly peak above the east bay hills running about 15 to 23. the winds are out there. they're going to keep feeding this fire with fresh oxygen. they're going to keep pushing this fire to the south on its own. but also we know that in canyons that fires will climb the canyon. it's called the chimney effect. and as the hot air rises, it dries the vegetation that's around it up on top of the hills and that creates an even faster ignition for those fuels, if you will, do ignite, and as the wind blows, it acts as an exhaust on your car and vents out the fire and the flame and the -- i should say the smoke, and just

keeps feeding the system. so the system won't choke itself by any means. it would normally be the case in the hills where the air is usually calm during the overnight hours. if you live in a higher elevation near the fire or if you live downwind to the south of it, that's where the area that is most susceptible to spot fires developing as the embers are picked up by the winds blowing from northeast to southwest. thankfully that's not a very densely populated area. but it is not a very easily accessible area also to get to, because there's just not a lot of roads out there in that area. so here's a look at what's going on as far as the winds, and you can see they're fastest in the central valley and across the north way. that's the way it's going to continue to be for the next couple hours. we are in the peak area and the peak time from now through about 8:00 this morning. maybe 9:00 for the east bay

hills. so we've got about five hours of critical fire conditions at just about the height of what they can be this time of year. thankfully we don't have anything about the 50 miles per hour winds in the north way or with the fires around chico and redding. we have winds that are still very dangerous for what we're dealing with in moraga. >> thank you for that. our photographer henry is headed to that area. we have him on the phone. i know you're trying to set up a live shot. can you tell me what you're seeing right now? >> reporter: yeah. i'm on camino pablo across from the evacuation center. all i see right now is a lot of cars that are getting out of here as quickly as they can, and over the church up a hill, you can see a lot of fire vehicles, a lot of cal fire vehicles going up that hill, and there's a glow that you can see.

i can't see flames but i can see a glow up on the hill behind it. it's a little bit up the ways. it's not like it's hundreds of feet. it's more than that. but it's definitely a concern because a lot of cars are trying to get out of here as fast as they can. >> i can imagine. describe that area for people who not be familiar. is it a residential area? a lot of homes? >> reporter: it's residential. there's a lot of cars getting out of here. they came from homes. it's very twisty, windy to get up here. it's up in a very wooded area from off the 24. takes a good 10, 15 minutes to get up here. they're trying to get out of here as fast as they can. it looks like the church is completely without power. it -- the church is completely dark. >> we were thinking act that because we know pg&e shut off

power in that area as a precaution. is there anybody at the church? >> oh, yeah. >> do you see people leaving? >> reporter: there's people at the church. there's police here. there's people that are coming here. i'm assuming because they're cob fused as -- confused as to whether they're getting help. i think they're telling them just get out of here. >> we'll let you work to get the live shot set up. we want to see the pictures of what you're seeing. thank you for talking to us and sharing what you're seeing. >> reporter: no problem. >> we also have another -- we have another phone call right now with craig. are you on the line yet, craig? all right. i think we just lost him. definitely gives you perspective on what's going on out there at the church. that's the evacuation center. that is where officials are telling people to go who have had to leave their homes to be evacuated this morning. what we know is that residents along sanders ranch road, meryl

drive have been asked to evacuation and go to that church just to be safer, because this fire is zero percent contained. officials want people to be out of that area to be as safe as they can. it's a vegetation fire forcing evacuations in moraga. we got off the phone with henry. his live shot is up. we want to show you what he's seeing and describing the emergency vehicles going up and down the road there. and you can see for the most part moraga is in the dark. we see a lot of emergency vehicles there. we see cars as he was describing. people are just trying to get out of that area as safely as possible, because fire officials have told them they need to evacuate because this fire is burning out of control. as we told you, this fire is burning just south of st. mary's college. it's on meryl circle north. the fire was reported just before 1:00 this morning.

and at last check it was at least 50 to 60 acres that had burned with zero percent containment. this is why we're seeing this police activity and the firefighters here just trying to make sure that people are safe. they asked people who are living in this residential neighborhood to evacuate as soon as possible. we want to bring mike back in. i know you've been looking at the winds. what are we seeing right now? >> winds are increasing in speed throughout the morning. i noticed in my drive in a lot of debris on the roads rolling in. mainly in the form of twigs and a lot of leaves. no big branches as the winds haven't really hit the 45 to 55 miles per hour speeds, at least not in the east bay hills which is what we're looking at right here. you can see not a lot of debris on these roads. i did notice how dark it was and how erie it was. you cannot see the fire from 24. don't try to look that way. you cannot see the smoke, and

you probably won't be able to as it blows away. as we look at the live shot, any timeou want to take a look at the graphics, let me know. i have something to show you the critical fire conditions the next couple hours for moraga. you're going to be dealing with a very hard area to get to. two-lane roads winding through the hills. speed limit's 35 miles per hour max. been there many times. been to moraga and know that area is difficult to get through. here it is on the map. it just has a moderate fire danger, but it doesn't matter. does it? and let's see how long this fire danger. if you look in the upper right hand corner of your television screen or if you're watching us on something else, it's in the upper right hand corner. you can see from 3:00 this morning, it keeps going. we're in a moderate to even high fire danger all the way through about 4:00 this afternoon. we've got about a 12-hour window

where we're going to continue to stay in these critical fire conditions because of the winds that are outside right now and the fact that the humidity level is so low. so don't forget, if you live near this area or this could be a reminder for the rest of us that we're still under a red flag warning. a lot of people yesterday are like where is it? what are we doing? there's no wind out here. we kept pointing to this time is when it's most critical and to be prepared. it looks like a lot of those people were as they're evacuating getting woke up in the middle of the night saying let's go. >> it probably helps they had everything they needed kind of packed up if they needed any spplies. they knew if not or had them in a central location. another thing. they had been practicing for an emergency just like this. they had an evacuation drill back in december at the moraga country club. they knew this might be a possibility and they knew kind

of what to do in case something like this happens. >> that's the key. preparation. when preparation meets action, you know? it always helps. you have that bag by the front door. have it by the garage door or in your car. know where your keys are, your phone is, know where your i.d. is. know where your important papers are going to be. have them in that bag or at least in the fireproof safe. having all that stuff together we talked about makes those critical seconds that you need to get away from this fire more accessible than you're not fumbling around in the dark or trying to find those things right now. >> craig is in that area and on the phone with us. craig, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. >> so where exactly are you and what are you seeing? >> reporter: i'm on sanders road about the 070 block. i'm seeing them going house to house knocking down fires. there's a fire on the house up

the street for about a block or two and a little bit earlier they were calling people to be -- >> a little bit earlier what, now? i couldn't hear you. the last part. >> here we go. i had a drop. the cell service here is very light. i may drop out. they're going house to house telling people to evacuate. the sheriff is going around in their cars with the sirens going. the fire is looking pretty good. they're getting a pretty good knock on it but that's just my opinion. i don't see any flames except up the street. it's not as orange and growing as fast as it was earlier. >> i don't know if you've been able to see this. when they're going door to door, do you get a sense most people are out already or are some people being woken up for the first time by the officers? >> reporter: i was spliurprised see nobody was coming out. there's just a couple that were already out. the other ones either aren't hearing or their phones are out. there's no power in the neighborhood at all. it's totally black.

they're not getting the message, the reverse calls or they're not hearing it. i don't think all these people evacuated before i got here. when i arrived fairly quick, there were no cars coming out. some people may not be heeding the message to get out. that's just my opinion. there's still cars in the driveways. so some people are staying. >> describe that neighborhood. are there a lot of homes there, or -- >> >> reporter: yeah. they're very nice homes. they're probably upwards of million dollar houses. it's in a very nice club type neighborhood. gated community. and just a very nice affluent neighborhood. basically your bedroom community. very nice place. a lot of vegetation. that's the problem right there, the vegetation is pretty high and dry. >> lots of vegetation there. we're seeing a live shot. we can see a lot of people here kind of just waking up in the

middle of the early morning trying to figure out what to do. it seems like based on what you're saying that's really the case for a lot of people. we've also been able to see smoke. have you seen any flames or are you seeing mostly smoke where you are? >> reporter: a lot of smoke, but not too many flames anymore. it's not orange behind the houses like it was. just up the street there's a little bit of orange. it's being knocked down very very low. the fire does a really good job keeping it out of people's backyards and houses. i've watched them go house to house in the backyards before they get there. >> what's the wind like now? is it pretty strong there? has it died down? >> reporter: it's probably 3 to 5 miles per hour. maybe 10 to 15 miles at times. but i'm at the bottom of the hill. >> fire and police officials, have they said anything to you or have you been getting out of

their way, letting them do their jobs? >> reporter: i interviewed a public information officer, he stated to me the fire was between 35 and 40 acres and possibly 20% contained per the air attack overhead or somebody from cdf said that. that's the preliminary right now, and by the looks of it from what i'm seeing i have to go with that because the fire burning is not burning crazily like it was earlier. >> that's improvement from the last update. they told you 35 to 40 acres and 20% contained? >> reporter: that's what he said. >> that's improvement. 60 acres and zero percent containment. good to see they're making improvements on this. are you close to the evak centers? >> reporter: i want seen any evacuation centers. i know people were directed to

go out sanders ranch road or the joining road. i didn't overhear where they were telling them to go at this point. >> we appreciate you being there on the fire lines. we hope you're safe. we'll check in with you in a little bit to see if there are anymore updates on how things look. >> reporter: sounds good. >> thank you so much. >> mike, i want to check in with you. this is a slight improvement from earlier in the morning. 20% contained. any percent is an improvement. we're happy about that, and hearing craig talk about the winds there, how he feels like they're kind of dying down. how does that -- >> in the valleys. in the valleys things are quieter than on the hill. that's the concern. because the fire is going to climb up the hill and once it climbs up the hill, what happens when it hits the extra oxygen and the faster winds that are blowing at that higher elevation which could make it spread even faster. as long as it's down deeper in the valley, there's a fighting chance to get to it because

that's not the easiest area to get to, and to get it contained before it climbs up the hills. that's an area that receives a lot of rain come can paired to a lot of other areas in the bay area. you do have a lot of trees. but under the trees you have a lot of dead vegetation right now. a lot of fuel, if you will. so what's going to happen is that's what catches on fire. eventually that heats up the tree. the tree dries out. the tree catches on fire, and then the wind catches the trees and takes the embers from the trees and moves it downwind and that's how you get more fires started or spot fires. so it is a very unfortunately in this case lush vegetation that is fuel for the fire. so here's a look at the wind forecast. and we'll use oakland for an for example. 23, and we've seen gusts around 20 to even 35 at the higher elevations. moraga is about 2500 feet. since they don't have power, we're not getting information

from the weather station. we have to take weather stations elsewhere. the closest one is grizzly peak. that's about 18 00 feet near the berkeley campus. and just to the west of danville and san ramon at 1700 feet is where the winds are gusting up to 35 miles per hour. as you see as we head through time, we're going to stay pretty quick the next couple hours. then we quiet down a little bit in the hills and then we pick up again once the sun rises and the atmosphere overturns and the faster winds in the middle parts out atmosphere are dragged down as air rises. you have to replace the rising air. it's the cooler heavy air with the faster winds that are up around 5,000 feet that come down. so right now through about 5:00 we have our worst conditions. we'll have a couple hours where the winds will let up just a little bit. and you can see by 9:00, they'll pick up again. and they'll be pretty quick around 20, 25 miles per hour through the afternoon hours and then as we head toward the late

afternoon, evening, the winds are going to calm down. thankfully where the fire is going to spread if it follows the wind pattern is south. and once you get out of morag to the south, there's nothing, it's forest. that means more stuff could burn but at least people won't be threatened if this does move south. >> got you. thanks, mike. we were talking about preparation. and we want to tell you the people here, they've practiced for ts exact emergency. we want to show you video. this is an evacuation drill they had in december of last year at the moraga country club. you can see the drivers leaving the city on highway 24. they used st. andrew's drive as the evacuation route. moraga was the first city to do a drill after the campfire in 2018. you can't help b tnk this helped peoplenhaveo wake up at 1:00 in the morning and figure out how to get out safely, how to protect their homes. a drill like this extremely

helpful in this situation where it's dark. there's no power, and you have to figure out how to get to safety and get your family to safety as soon as possible. this evacuation drill playing a part in helping people in this area as they have to evacuate right now this morning. so we want to give you an update. we spoke with craig who was on the scene there at the fire line. and he's told us he's gotten an update from fire officials there that now 35 to 40 acres are burning here in moraga and it's 20% contained. that's an update from what we had originally learned this morning when it was zero percent contained. we're happy to hear that. he said there are -- it seems like the winds are lower, but in his area, and the concern is that as we go higher the winds might increase, so mike has been tracking that to let us know what impact that might have on fire officials as they try to get the fire under control and protect people's homes. we are live here.

we want to show you this video. this is of police in that area. craig also told us that police and fire officials were going door to door knocking on people's doors, trying to let them know that they needed to get out. that they needed to evacuate because of the this fire. he kind of told us some people had no idea. pg&e did these preemptive fire shutoffs so a lot of people are in the dark. we don't know what the situation might be with their phones or them being able to get alerts or the calling systems. so they were really dependent upon officials to knock on their doors and tell them you need to get out of your house right now. grab your things and go. he said there was still some cars in the driveway. some people were -- we saw earlier just in their pajamas trying to figure things out. so this is really -- this is really tough for a lot of people because of these -- the power outages that are going on.

and also because of the time. you know, it's 1:00 in the morning. you can see this guy here talking to police trying to figure out probably exactly what to do, where to go next. we do know that people who have been asked to evacuate do have somewhere to go. they have set up a site for people to go. it's an evacuation center at st. monica's church. the address is 1001 camino pablo. this is for residents along sanders ranch road. also along meryl drive and harrington froroad. those people are being asked to evacuate immediately. this woman right here is walking with her dog in the area. we have other people here who are talking to fire and police officials. craig telling us this is a residential neighborhood. nice homes here where people are trying to just get their things together and get to safety as

soon as possible, really. again -- >> the only way out is to go north. >> really? >> yeah. you can't go south. in looking at it yrvegs that's good. because the fire will possibly move to the south. the smoke will move south while everybody else is running away to the north trying to get to highway 24 and trying to get out that way. i think that's the only way to get out of moraga is to head north. >> i'm glad they did that drill because they know where to go especially in the early morn right now. you kind of have to be a little bit of sense of this is my plan. this is the evacuation route. this is what i need to do, and look agent this live video, it looks like people are mobilizing. they're in their vehicles. police and fire officials navigating this, letting people know where to go. and hopefully that evacuation is drill they did in december of last year is really helping people and having a better sense ofhat to do. >> it's nice to see them moving.

that's been the problem with our other fires.so any people cloghe roads or they left too late or they all tried to leave at the same time. there was only one way to get out. they were stuck and not moving. you could see the cars were moving. moraga is about 16,000. it has a couple different arteries to get out to the north toward highway 24. the problem is you saw there, it's just so dark. and it's already dark in moraga. it's up in the hills. there's lafayette around. a lot of that light from those moraga because the mountains or hills block it. now they don't have power. it's even darker than it normally would be. so trying to get around in the rk and not knowing what you're doing and you're half asleep would be much worse than the fact that they had 16,000 people and they did that drill. very surprised to hear that, but very happy to hear that that did happen, and it looks like it's

working. >> yeah. i know we had a tweet up. maybe we can bring it back up, that picture. it's really interesting. this woman was tweeting out about how she was able to get out. she said the meryl fire, i'm happy to be safe. i left meryl circle with the doggies i'm sitting for. she said she left around 1:10. that lets you know how quickly she got it together and got out of there. we're getting reports about this fire that was reported just before 1:00. 12:54 is apparently the first reports of the fire. she said she left around 1:10. 15 minutes, out of the house. because a neighbor knocked on her door. and i think that's so important, because it shows you it's really about community coming together and hey, letting people know this is what's going on. you have to get out of here. and so you have neighbors knocking on doors so people can get evacuated and go somewhere safely like she did. and then craig telling us that you have police going door to

door knocking on people's doors and letting them know that they have to get out. as we mentioned, pg&e proactively shut off power in that area. people are in the dark. i'm not sure that everyone has the phone alerts and systems they would normally in place in a situation like this. people are really dependent on people coming and telling them what's going on like this woman on their neighborhood. this video is from december of 2018. and this is an evacuation drill. >> okay. >> that people did back then. so basically what they did is they held an evacuation route headed to highway 24. they used st. andrew's drive, and it just gave people an idea of what to do in case they needed to evacuate. this is so important, because right now it's dark. it's in the middle of the morning. people are probably half asleep, and so having an idea of what a

to do is so helpful. we want to toss it to jabina who just got to the scene at the evacuation center. good morning. what are you seeing right now? >> reporter: hi. good morning. i just arrived here and it took a very long time to get down canyon road and coming up pablo where the evacuation center is. it's dark. there are lights flashing. some intersections there aren't any lights at all or blockages as well. you can see the police officers in the front escorting people, explain where they need to go. there are crowds all through the parking lot. people arriving. i'm seeing dogs. i'm seeing people in their pajamas. as i pulled up here. if we take a look around here, walk a little further into the parking lot, you can see how packed it is. there are dozens of cars here. i do have some information that we received from the fire department.

they are asking specifically for people that live on sanders ranch road to leave the area at this point. we have not gotten much word on if there are other streets that need to be evacuated as well. at 2:44 this morning there were currently 30 acres burning in the area. again, now that we're getting closer in the parking lot here, you can see that people are arriving. sanding outside in their jackets. there are people sitting in their cars as well. it's a bit unclear what is going to happen from here. it also doesn't look like at this point that anyone is inside the building at this address where i am. people at this point are collecting in the parking lot. i just arrived here about a minute ago. so that is about what i've gathered at this point. >> so you're at st. monica's. right? >> reporter: yes. yes. yes. >> gotcha.

earlier when we checked in with henry he said it looked like the church was still out of power. is that what you're seeing. everything is still in the dark there? do theyave a generator? are you able to tell? >> reporter: i believe what i'm hearing from you is that the church does not have power and the answer is yes, you can see the dark building over there as well. the power is completely out here. as soon as i entered moraga you couldn't see anything. it's dark on the roadways. people evacuating from their homes, it is quite difficult to make your way through the streets here. there are a lot of people that are just a bit confused right now and aren't clear on what's going on. i'm going to see if we might be able to see neighbors to talk to us in a moment. good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: did you all evacuate your homes this morning? >> we did. just about 20 minutes ago. >> reporter: can you tell me what happened when you left your house this morning? >> somebody was pounding on the door, and asked us to leave.

and we said how much time do we have? they said you have time. so we just take our time and pack everything we think is important. and then they asked us to park over here. but now it's good news. now they say that the fire is contained. we saw the firefighters. it's surrounded by the firefighters. that's what i heard. >> reporter: that's great news. about how far away do you live from here? >> about one mile. yeah. we are just behind a school across from sanders ranch. >> reporter: do you have power at your home? >> no power right now. >> reporter: how long has the power been out at your home? >> not very long. since 11:00 p.m. a few hours. >> reporter: was this something you all feared when you learned pg&e was going to be cutting the power? was there any thought there could potentially be a fire? >> very mostly. you know, i thought, you know, maybe the weather forecast was wrong.

that's what i thought. we didn't see any wind in moraga. but this fire came out of nowhere. i don't know. we're still wonders right now. i'm trying to find somebody to talk to right now. >> reporter: did you see anything? did you see smoke, flames, any glow? >> no. did you see any fires? >> yeah, i did. >> you saw fires? >> reporter: sir, would you like to tell us what you saw this morning? what did you see? >> i'm at the end of sanders drive up here, and when they got me out of the house since i was leaving, i saw smoke and i saw the sky was red toward st. mary's. and red from the flames. and i didn't really stop to see anything else after that. i came down here, and they just told us that they have firefighters all around the fire, but it's not yet contained. >> okay. >> i have my fingers crossed. my house is the last one at the end of sanders drive.

>> reporter: wow. that's the main street that they're saying needs to leave the area. >> yeah. >> reporter: okay. now, when you evacuated your home this morning, did you leave on your own or did someone come and wake you up? >> they woke me up. >> that's a good question. our neighbor's car is still parked there. i need to ask the police whether i should wake them up. i see they have two young kids. >> yeah. they were going door to door and pounding on every door until they got some response from people inside. >> reporter: was it difficult to get out because of the outage? were people able to see? i had a hard time getting here because of how dark it was. >> i know the area. so it wasn't too hard. we don't have very many street lights in the area, but it wasn't difficult to get down here. mainly because i know the back streets. >> reporter: and your power went out last night as well? >> yeah. mine went out at about 11:00.

when i looked up it was 11:03 when everything shut down. and they're saying that the fire started at 1:00. so that was two hours after the power went out. so there's not much of a relationship except it makes life difficult for people evacuatiing and people who want to fight the fire. >> reporter: let me ask you this. you mentioned that about the power being turned off and there was still a fire. i know a lot of people are very frustrated about pg&e cutting the power. we see that there was still a fire anyway. do you have any feelings towards that? >> no. except it -- at least so far it doesn't seem to connect to anything that pg&e is doing. i kind of like to know how a fire starts two hours after all the power in the area goes out. somebody having some fun or smoking a cigarette or something like that? i'm not sure.

but as far as pg&e and the power outage, pg&e is not one of my favorite companies these days. >> my neighbor works for pg&e. >> reporter: oh, no. i think there are many californians that feel similarly. >> i'm more upset at the executives than i am at the people who work for the company. the people who work for the company do a good job, but the executives -- as far as i can see, were more interested in paying dividends to shareholders and increasing executive salaries than they were about spending money on safety. >> reporter: what have officers and firefighters told you since you've been at the evacuation center? the power is out. i know no one can go inside. >> the only thing they've told us is that -- well, they already said about it being contained and we can't go back in. >> reporter: so no eta on when you'll be able to reenter your homes? >> nope.

>> until further notice. >> yeah. >> any health issues? it seems like you're taking oxygen? >> i have oxygen, and i got sleep apnea, and so i was sleeping in a chair, so i didn't have to lay flat which is when i have problems breathing with my apn apnea, and it was kind of funny, because all of a sudden you're woken up and there's this -- some nut is pounding on the door, and i got there. i saw the red lights, and that's when they told me. and i got myself some oxygen, and so i would have supplies and then came down here. i think that was the first car in the parking lot down here. >> reporter: how long have you been here? >> 20 minutes. >> half an hour or so. >> reporter: half hour. okay. i'm glad you'll you're all safe. >> i just have some -- in my

bag. that's all i need. >> reporter: thank you for talking with us. i'm glad you're okay and hopefully everyone's homes are -- >> i left the house about 2:00. >> reporter: 2:00 this morning? >> yeah. >> reporter: and it's probably 3:45. >> time goes fast when you're having fun. >> reporter: your version of fun, maybe. i'm glad you all are so all right this morning. thank you both. thank you for talking with us. >> thank you. >> reporter: you get an idea of what people are going through out here in the parking lot. it looks like a lot of people have retrieved into their cars. i will send it back to you and we'll see if we can get more information. >> thank you so much. glad to see that people are trying to make the best of the situation. a really tough situation trying to evacuate their homes in the middle of the morning. and so glad to see that so many people are okay. we also want to go live to amy on sanders ranch road. people had to evacuate there.

what are you seeing? >> reporter: we have an update for you on the fire. joining me live right now is dennis rains with the fire department. dennis, what can you tell us about this fire and the emergency right now? it sounds like you guys have knocked it down pretty good? >> firefighters are doing a great job. the fire was reported before 1:00 a.m. there are about 150 people on the line right now. the fire is about 60 acres. >> the homes were evacuated. so far that we know of there's been no structure damage and no injuries. we're going to keep working this until the sun comes up and see where we are. right now it's about 60% contained. >> is it forward progressing, raging or is it pretty much tamped down? >> well, optimistically i'm going to say it's looking really good out here. the fire is knocked down. i think we have pretty much

firefighters and hose around the fire, but with the winds and the extreme fire weather conditions that we have, we're going to watch this until the sun comes up and keep working the line. >> reporter: would you mind expanding on that? the area doesn't have power because of the fire conditions. what is the weather like for you right now? >> pg&e did a precautionary power shut off. none of the homes here have power. the street lights are out. we're working hard with our head lamps and engine lights to continue to put water on this fire. >> reporter: talk to us about the people. about how many people did you evacuate? >> the active evacuations have stopped. we're asking people to stay out of the area until we can kind of get some things more secure, and make sure that it's safe for them to come back. one thing i'll say is that the residents that wre here when they were asked to evacuate, did heed the order and that was a

great help to our fire crews to be able to get in unimpeded and do their job working for the fire line. >> reporter: and for someone who is possibly in the area watching this, can you give us an idea on what streets? >> it's primarily meryl circle and sanders ranch drive and i believe there were evacuations on the top of ulta mesa. they we >> reporter: anything else you wanted to get anymore information you wanted to get out there? >> underscore the importance of doing vegetation management around homes. this fire did have the potential for spotting. luckily that didn't happen, but as weo through the rest of the season, it's important that everybody manages the vegetatio. >> can you give us an idea of where this is burning? is it a big park? a big football field? someone's backyard? help us understand what's

burning. >> sanders ranch was part of an old kalgt ranch. the area behind it is currently being grazed. this is grazed grassland with some canyons with brush in it. not very much. primarily gasland is burning. >> reporter: is it private property? >> yes. >> someone's private property, but big open space. how close is it to a home roughly? >> the fire burned down the hill to really people's backyards here in moraga. >> reporter: that's scary. >> yeah. but firefighters were waiting in the backyards with charged hose lines. it was a lot safe tore stay and let the fire back down to them than to lay hose up the hill. in some cases we came down from the top. and there's a bulldozer working too. >> reporter: did the power outage impact your evacuation at all? >> not that i know of. that was handled by the police department and what i heard is people were very cooperative. >> reporter: was it easy to get them up?

were they stumbling around? no lights. >> i helped one elderly couple get in the car at the last minute the lady said oh, i forgot my wallet. she had to go in the house. it was a little confusing, but i think people get the idea that when they're asked to evacuate, it's important they do so. >> reporter: they're doing it with flashlights this time, adding another element. >> they are. emergency preparedness is what it's all about these days. >> reporter: okay. thank you so much for that great briefing and for all the hard work. it sounds like this one is -- we aren't in panic mode. >> i think when the sun comes up things will be looking good. >> reporter: love to hear that. we appreciate you. it sounds like this situation is calming down a bit. everyone is still on alert. still want to stay informed. we will stay here on the scene and bring you updates as we have them. back to you. >> all right. thank you for that update. we want to show you some new video that we've gotten of the flames. can you imagine this is really scary to look at. just hearing from that fire official he said the flames

burned down to people's backyards. so that's why firefighters he said were in place to make sure that these flames did not spread. it's amazing to look at this fire video now and then to hear him say he feels like things are going to be okay once the sun comes up and they're 60% contained. we're so happy to hear this. you can only imagine if you're in the neighborhood and seeing the flames, you know, behind your home and that's where people in moraga dealt with, the fire official telling us this is a fire that is mostly grazed grassland that was burning as you can see here. it's on private property. and it burned all the way down to people's backyards. and so that's why they were going door to door around 1:00 this morning. you can see neighbors honking trying to make sure people get up and get out. because there is fire and flames coming to people's backyard. this is video from earlier this

morning showing you how close the flames got to people's homes. so so happy that amy was able to speak with the fire chief here to let us know that he feels like when the sun comes up things will be so much better and now this fire is 50 to 60% contained. and drew is over here in our weather center. you've been looking at the winds. what do you make of just kind of what you're seeing in the progress? >> yes. we are watching the winds. the winds in the area are pretty light. that's good, mike? >> definitely at the lower elevations it's light. when i drove through there gusts were moving from north to south across, and you can feel them tug at the car a little bit. this was about an hour and a half ago when i was driving through this, about 2:00. almost two hours ago. but yeah, when you get down in the valleys, it's much quieter. this has been a very ridge top drifing wind event.

and it's no surprise that this fire developed on the south side of a hill that separates that subdivision from st. mary's college. and that the winds since it was blowing north to south helped push the fire down the hill to the south towards that particular subdivision, and it was nice to hear those guys were lined up there and ready and waiting for it coming at them. usually the fire will move the other way, up the mountains. this one had a different twist to it. because it was coming down thanks to the winds pushing it. it sounds like none of the embers jumped over to the -- ther a hill on the other side of that subdivision. it sounds like none of the embers jumped over there because the winds are a little bit calmer down in the valley than in the ridge top. if this thing had gone up the mountain, we could have had a more dangerous situation. because that's where the faster 25 to 30 miles per hour winds are. moraga is a town of about 16,000.

because it does not have power, we cannot get specific weather data from that. but from around the areas 17 00 to 1800 feet the winds are gusting up to 25 miles per hour. the winds are out there, but thankfully this fire was deep into the canyon and it didn't get to touch the winds. and they didn't exacerbate the problem which they could have had the fire claimed up the mountains. >> for sure. grateful to hear the fire chief talking about the progress they've been able to make, especially when you see the video of what the fire looked like when it started around 1:00 this morning. pretty tough to imagine waking up and looking out of the back door and seeing flames so close to people's backyards, but the fire chief says that's what they were dealing with. that's why police and firemen were going door to door, new yorking on people's doors, letting them know they had to evacuate and they were telling people they needed to go to an evacuation center set up at st.

monica's church at 1 001 camino pablo. we're live there. we were talking with people earlier this morning. you have someone else here who had to evacuate. right? >> reporter: yes. good morning. i'm still standing in the parking lot of the st. monica church with lynn that i just met a moment ago. lynn, tell me what you heard. what happened this morning? >> first of all i got the phone call. i walked out my front door. and said i don't smell smoke. i don't see any flames. then i walked a little part down the driveway and the whole ridge was on fire. so that was time to go back in, get my 92-year-old mother, get in the car, get the cat, and get out. what i felt was is this really happening to me again? i'm sorry. not again. is it really happening to me.

and that was about it. but it does -- the first sound i heard was a sound like the freight train. it does. the fire is gathering so much air, i guess, and the weed, the weeds, crispy. so -- >> reporter: wow. how is your mother? you said your 92-year-old mother you had to help get out of the house. how is she? where is she right now? >> she's in the car. we have our walker with us. i didn't dress her. she has her shoes, and she's fine. i have found another lady from the neighborhood who is sitting in the car talking to her. that worked very well. >> reporter: you said you got the call. who called you this morning? >> i honestly don't know. it was a recorded voice, and it just said fire evacuate now. >> reporter: what street do you live on? >> we're up on sanders ridge road right at the top. >> reporter: and you didn't have power this morning either? >> thawas the worst part.

i kept flipping on lights trying to get things. the other thing i have learned and i learned this yesterday because i didn't know how many battery operated radios and phones and et cetera that i have. and i'm going to get those all together now to make sure i have them. the flashlights were no problem. talking to people here about things that they grabbed, many grabbed photographs, hard drives, very interesting one lady grabbed a log of all the flights she's taken in her life because she flies a lot, and she gets the captain to sign every time. it was kind of a log of her life. >> reporter: wow. >> i thought it was interesting. >> reporter: you all gathered your things this morning as though you were not going to come back or could potentially lose everything? >> we did. everybody up there did. >> reporter: let me ask you this. we've been talking a lot with

people in the parking lot about pg&e cutting the power. a fire has started anyway. do you sense that there's any relationship? what are your feelings about pg&e doing this? do you think there is any sort of residual impact in some kind of way? >> i can't say that i think of pg&e as the villian right now. simply because it seems to me that somebody long ago made the decision to not cut off the power because of the chaos that it is creating. and knowing that they could be -- that they could go bankrupt, could be sued. and so i thought that was a pretty good thought on their part. as far as i'm concerned, they're doing everything they can and they're learning as we are, and they're taking care of business.

>> reporter: lynn, have the firefighters or police officer given you information as to when you can get back to your home? >> they have not. only i think i heard the policeman say large drive residents can go back on large, but sanders ranch is still full of fire trucks and hoses, and we'll just get in the way. >> reporter: i'm glad you're all right this morning and your mother as well. that's a difficult thing to do by yourself. and especially in the dark. >> yeah. >> reporter: i can't imagine, lynn. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> reporter: it's cold out here, too. i see you. it is. we'll have good attitudes despite everything. we're going to keep walking around the parking lot and bringing you more residents in the area. >> thank you. she is live at the evacuation center at st. monica's a place where people who have been asked to evacuate can go. police and fire officials are telling them to go there. right now we want to check in

with our weather team. right now you can see how many counties at this point are under these red flag warnings. there is a high fire danger, and really, the concern is about the wind. >> yeah. that's right. you can see how many people are under this red flag warning. and we are in this through the evening. this will continue until 5:00 later on today. we're still seeing that threat of winds out of the north, northwest. i do want to show you what is happening in our hills right now. the latest, this is about above 1000 feet. the winds are racing out of the north. knoxville creek close to 40. oakland hills we've seen winds coming out of the north at about 24 miles per hour. the same thing right now along the coastline. the winds are very active. and it is bringing in some dryer air. you look at the humidity across the region, and it is really low right now. and that the threat we have. we have the really dry winds out of the north bringing in the dry air. humidity is down to the teens right now in many of our higher

elevations. we've been watching there through the overnight hours. that's the biggest threat. we're afraid the winds will continue to drag in the dry air. >> i think there's a false sense of security because the winds aren't as fast in the valleys. most of us live in the valleys. we don't live on the mountain tops. we've shown that's where the fires are going to start. even if they start on the top of a mountain, they could descend into the valleys where everybody lives. i think because not in my neighborhood kind of mentally, it's not windy. you live in the valley. right now winds are faster in the higher elevations. don't let that lull you into a false sense of security that i'm safe. because the winds are calm where i am. but the winds can be very much faster if you go up 1,000 feet. we have huge elevation changes in that area. moraga is at about 500 feet in the valley. the mountains and hills around

it are 1500 to nearly 2000 feet are the winds are pushing 25 to 30 and even 40 miles per hour. that's why you need to be prepared and have everything ready to go in case anything like this happens and you're woke up in the middle of the night and told to go. >> it seems like the folks in moraga knew this was a heightened fire danger. they know they have to be active and get out when they can. >> that's not too many ways to get in and out. the ways are not easy. they're windy streets. the speed limits are 35 miles per hour. you're not going to evacuate quickly. as long as you -- you can't move quickly on the roads as far as you being quickly and your actions to get i know you will be watching those winds. reggie is joining us now. we're following breaking news in the east bay.

this is a vegetation fires that been burning, threatening homes in moraga. people have been forced to evacuate. we spoke with the fire chief, he thinks it's mostly contained, anywhere from 50% to 60% contained at this point. he thinks once the sun comes up everything will be okay. it's scary to see those flames and people having to evacuate early in the morning when they don't have the power because of the shutoffs pg&e has been performing. >> these are the winds that pg&e has been warning us about. there is danger regardlesarning. there is danger regardless whether the power is on or off. we have a couple of reporters at the scene about a mile away from each other including at the evacuation center and we have our amy hollyfield who has been talking to some peeld wople who forced out of their homes earlier. >> good morning. we just asked the fire officials if they would take us