>> announcer: building a better bay area. for a safe and secure future. this is abc 7 news. a san jose strike team caught in an intense fight to save a home in napa county and to protect four others. this as more evacuations get under way as the glass fire continues to burn out of control. >> i've had some increases in evacuation orders and warnings over the last 24 hours. we're preparing for the worst case scenario. we're hoping for the best. >> and tonight crews are preparing for more dangerous winds coming. >> the glass fire continues to grow in napa and sonoma counties. it's up to nearly 52,000 acres tonight. cal fire says containment remains at 2%. there are more evacuation orders and flames are now threatening more than 26,000 structures.

we know more than 100 homes have been lost in the fire and dozens more damaged. so far, though, no one has been hurt. here's a look at where the fire is burning. firefighters are preparing for more dry and breezy conditions. a red flag warning goes into effect tomorrow afternoon. firefighters are hoping the progress they've made pays off as those red flag conditions bear down, and they try to protect the town of calistoga. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony has the story. >> reporter: it seems counterintuitive, to set fires when they're trying to stop one. but that's exactly what firefighters are doing high atop diamond mountain road just a few miles from downtown calistoga. the goal, to gain the upper hand on the glass fire. while the winds are down. >> so that's why we're really trying to button up the lower parts of the fire with our burn operations and aggressive operations there. >> reporter: in downtown calistoga it's raining ash but

no homes or businesses in town burned overnight. a night that prompted mandatory evacuations. though some residents still tried to get back in. >> i'm just trying to get to my house in calistoga. i have koi fish that i'm just trying to feed. >> last night was a stressful night so far. the last three nights. i couldn't sleep. the mountain was in flames. >> reporter: the people here are clearly weary. a series of fires in recent months and years have left them on edge. always wonder iing whether to sy or go. >> if the ten acres above me go there's nothing we're going to be able to do. we've got a cab over camper. it's fully loaded, makd, ready to go as soon as we feel it's unsafe we're going to split. >> reporter: as we stand here today in evacuated downtown calistoga it's hot. there's ash rainin down. but the flames so far have stayed at bay. of course the big concern, what happens when those winds pick up again. in calistoga, laura anthony, abc

7 news. >> and meteorologist sandhya patel joins us now. she has been tracking those red flag conditions. sandhya. >> yeah, ama and dan, we're looking at a red flag warning beginning tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 for the north bay mountains. it runs until friday evening. the reason for this, wind gusts anywhere from 25 to 30 miles an hour out of the northwest. really low humidity and dry fuels. and that means glass fire, dolan fire around the southern monterey county area, both under that red flag warning. it's just going to exacerbate existing conditions. now, the winds are already beginning to pick up. mount diablo 31, mount st. helena gusts to 17. and mount familiar 24-mile-an-hour winds right now. take a look at the conditions near the glass fire. it is 83 degrees, still warm. 25% humidity. winds are light. that should help the firefighters. but not for long. as you take a look at the hour by hour wind forecast you will notice those winds increasekracs we head toward tomorrow. 25 at lakeport. and we also have a heat advisory

going up tomorrow as the heat builds risk of illnesses will increase as well. i'll be back with a full look at how hot and how long the fire danger will last coming right up. dan and ama. >> all right, sandhya, thank you. well, first it was covid-19. now the glass fire. it all means another week of no school for tens of thousands of snuntsz sonoma and napa counties. abc 7 reporter stephanie sierra spent the day with one family in santa rosa who came home to see the destruction. >> reporter: at first glance maria castillo high school looks untouched. but rincon valley behind it tells a different story. >> we're so grate thafl it didn't get more of the school. >> reporter: julie zweifel and her two daughters live right across the street. >> we saw the embers fly up and over the mountain onto the hillside right behind our house and to the school. and that's when it got scary because we couldn't even get out. >> reporter: the young girls are two of more than 24,000 students forced to evacuate in sonoma county.

for bailey covid was hard enough. >> covid, it sucks because you're just at home and you have nothing to do. and you can't talk to any of your friends. this time with the fires like when you need your friends you're not close with them. >> reporter: sonoma county superintendent dr. steve harrington says 6 out of 10 students report experiencing trauma due to fires. >> we've had kindergartners who start to shake physically, visibly shake when they see or smell smoke. we have families whose children act out when they see and smell smoke. >> reporter: the district is providing ptsd training and counselors for students who've evacuated. >> many of those students have had to be evacuated over the past three years as many as five times due to the fire. >> reporter: like bailey and her sister taylor who evacuated from the tubbs fire. >> it feels like deja vu from three years ago. this one is just so much closer to home because it's our own back yard. >> reporter: a back yard now burnt, symbolic of 2020.

maria carrillo high school is one that has been damaged by the glass fire but luckily fire crews are able to prevent the flames from moving any further. reporting in santa rosa stephanie sierra, abc 7 news. if you want to keep track of the glass fire and all of the fires burning in the state, you can use abc 7's exclusive wildfire tracker. it's right on abc7news.com and the abc 7 news app. >> my apologies, ama. san francisco is now the first city in the bay area to move into the orange tier of reopening. for the first time in six months restaurants were allowed to open for indoor dining today. the economy is something we're focused on as part of our ongoing effort to build a better bay area, and reporter j.r. stone explains what to look for if you want to dine inside. j.r., big change. >> reporter: yeah. certainly big changes, dan. i've been to several restaurants tonight. and while we did see indoor dining happening, managers and owners tell us that no one

actually requested to sit inside at the locations we went to. they gave in because that's all that was left. in san francisco's north beach neighborhood patrons were eating inside at park tavern, a very well-known restaurant. now, the city rule is that those patrons must wear a mask unless their food is there and they are eating or drinking. we did not see that. only masks that were off. experts i talked with said wearing a mask is key and ventilation is key when indoors. we did see windows open. a doctor with ucsf and a ph.d. that i talked with both told me that they would not go eat at a busy indoor restaurant right now. you'll hear why that is tonight at 11:00 p.m. and here's something interesting. if the music or tv is loud at a restaurant inside, you may want to avoid the place altogether. those experts will explain why at 11:00. j.r. stone, abc 7 news. >> thank you, j.r. coming up on abc 7 news at 11:00, excessive force? a mother in fear and now a san

jose police officer faces a criminal charge of excessive force. and some palo alto students could be back in classrooms in 12 days. the school board vote approved reopening plans despite no matter how far you go the pain is always around the corner. in the tubbs fire. the flames, the ash, it was terrifying. thousands of family homes are destroyed in wildfires. families are forced to move and higher property taxes are a huge problem. prop 19 limits taxes on wildfire victims so families can move without a tax penalty. nineteen will help rebuild lives. vote 'yes' on 19.

it's a situation i can't control. i have no control over. >> a mother of three describes the fear she felt and the injuries she suffered at the hands of a san jose police officer who now faces a criminal charge of excessive force. the victim in the case has given her first interview to the abc 7 news i-team and our dan noyes. >> reporter: guadalupe marin's contact with officer matt rodriguez began the week before this incident. she'd purchased a black infiniti from the website offer up. but the car had a history and rodriguez was part of the violent crime enforcement team that pulled her over. >> they said that the vehicle had evaded the police officers.

so there was a felony warrant for the vehicle. so they wanted to impound it. they knew that i wasn't the driver. >> reporter: fast forward to july 22nd. guadalupe's sister picked her up in a bmw she just bought from a mechanic. but the passenger's side door didn't work. so she slid over to let guadalupe drive to mcdonald's. >> i wanted her to drive. and i told her you want to drive or you want to climb through the window? so it would just be easier for her to get in the car than have to go around. >> reporter: guadalupe drove to the restaurant at north 27th street and east santa clara with her sister, her niece and nephew in the back. within seconds of arriving officer rodriguez and his partner rush at the car, guns drawn. >> ordering me to get out of the car and get on my knees. so i did. >> reporter: and that's when this video shot by a door dash driver picks up. rodriguez, an 11-year veteran of the san jose pd, orders guadalupe to crawl towards him. she tells me she didn't understand because he was already so close. then rodriguez kicked her, leaving this bruise on her stomach. >> how long between the time he

said i'm going to kick you and when he actually kicked you? >> like simultaneously. like at the same time almost. >> at the same time. >> mm-hmm. >> so there was no warning for you to actually comply before he kicked you. >> no. >> reporter: the video shows officer rodriguez cuffing guadalupe. then he picks her up by the wrist, forcing her arms back and drags her, scraping her bare skin on the pavement. >> were you afraid? >> yeah, i was afraid. i could hear my niece and my nephew screaming. coy hear my sister situation. it was a situation i couldn't control. >> reporter: guadalupe tells me officer rodriguez kept insifth the car was stolen. >> he kept saying is this another offer-up story? this is your car. he kept insisting the car was mine. it was not my car. i just barely got in that car for the first time. >> reporter: during the arrest her 7-year-old nephew telephoned another family member. you can hear him on a voicemail pleading with the officers. >> they really bought the car. they really bought the car. >> reporter: police later confirmed the car was not

stolen. in a statement the d.a.'s office says the bmw was wanted for evading police earlier that day with a male driver. and prosecutors charged officer rodriguez with misdemeanor penal code 149, assault under color of authority. his attorney mike raines tells me rodriguez thought guadalupe wasn't responding quickly enough and that she may have been reaching for a weapon in the waistband of her shorts. >> she reaches down toward her waistband and that caused him a great deal of concern. >> does that justify the kick in your mind? >> yeah, i think it does. he wasn't trying to hurt her. but he was trying to give her a distraction that would keep her from reaching for something. >> reporter: raines points out that rodriguez knows how dangerous traffic stops can be. the officer battled for a felon's handgun in november. it ended with his partner killing the suspect. >> i got the gun. i got the gun. i got the gun! >> force is never pretty. and that kind of thing is never

pretty. even if it's lawful, it looks awful. and that's true here. >> reporter: guadalupe marin has filed a claim against the city and officer rodriguez saying she suffered severe emotional and mental distress, fear, terror, nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety, depression, humiliation, embarrassment and loss of sense of security, dignity, and pride. sarah marino is her attorney. >> it's a classic case of excessive force. if the arrest was proper to begin with, if the detention was proper, this force was still excessive. >> reporter: the police union calls the charge pathetic. but chief eddie garcia sent a statement saying these types of investigations are deeply disappointing but are necessary. if you'd like to go deeper on the story, i'm posting the entire police report at abc7news.com. for the i-team dan noyes, abc 7 news. >> we'll stay on that of course. but now let's turn our attention to the weather forecast. ama, of course we've been so concerned about what's happening on the fire lines. >> yeah, and how hot it's going

to get over the next couple days. meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the latest. sandhya. >> yeah, it's not going to be for the better for us, that's for sure. or for the firefighters, dan and ama. it's going to be a combination of hot gusty conditions and very dry vegetation that will fuel potential fires that are already there and existing ones but also possibly new ones. let's take a look at our time lapse from our emeryville camera. you can see the smoke and the haze from the glass fire tonight. that's what gave us that reddish hue as the sun was setting this evening. definitely changing conditions. the air quality has been impacted. and you can see from the visible satellite picture here that there was the smoke that was just spreading from the glass fire into many parts of the north bay and even farther down. but one thing you may notice is earlier today we saw that fog just get blown away. it's a result of the north wind that pushed those temperatures up today. we got up into the low 100s.

100 degrees in livermore. it was a record for today. 101, excuse me, which is a record for today. high pressure is building. that's pushing the storm track to our north. and that's what's going to result in even hotter weather tomorrow. live doppler 7 really a couple patches of fog and that's it. exploratorium cameras showing you a great view of san francisco. mid 60s san francisco, mountain view 67. 68, excuse me, in half moon bay. gilroy, emeryville now showing you a lovely view as we look back toward the city. mid 60s santa rosa and novato. it is still warm in concord. 81 degrees. air quality, it's bad. unhealthy and red for napa, poor for sensitive groups from concord to livermore. into redwood city and oakland. san jose is in the red. and you will notice now the air quality is moderate around parts of the santa cruz mountains. as you take a look at the snow forecast you'll see it's going to be very smoky the next few days. not just tomorrow but as we head into friday. the pinks indicating more smoke around the region. spare the air the next two days. poor to unhealthy air quality

the weekend will show some signs of breathing a little easier. from our kgo roof camera, winds are light tonight along the embarcadero. hot, hazy the next you two days, breezes likely, gusty in the hills. high fire danger. cooler with better air quality this weekend. those winds will be picking up as we head toward tomorrow night, over 20 miles an hour. again, the winds will be gusting as we head toward friday afternoon and evening. and that's a big concern here. morning temperatures mid 50s to mid 70s. hazy, mild to warm tomorrow afternoon in the south bay, 98 in san jose. 100 in los gatos. 102 morgan hill on the peninsula. upper 90s. redwood city los altos, 78 in pacifica, downtown san francisco warm, 88 degrees. and in the north bay 102 in santa rosa. 99 in napa and hazy north. east bay 93 in oakland 96 fremont, head inland and it's going to be hot and hazy, 104 livermore, fairfield. accuweather seven-day forecast, heat building, danger for the fire also building. fire danger, excuse me.

and as we head into the weekend, much cooler, better air quality is expected. ama and dan? >> okay. that'll be nice, sandhya. thank you very much. coming up, the debate that left some people stunned and now some chang

state schools chief tony thurmond says his office is ready to help school districts poised to bring their students back to class. >> we're working closely with the state department of public health on how to enhance and support the efforts of our schools in the counties in terms of their testing protocols so that we can support those schools that will be open. >> the bay area have been granted waivers to reopen but the vast majority are still using distance learning. in the south bay the palo alto unified school district is moving forward with plans to begin offering in-person learning next month.

that's despite concerns from teachers and parents. abc 7 news reporter chris nguyen is on that story for us. >> reporter: in just a matter of weeks students in palo alto will have the option of returning to the classroom but teachers are expressing deep concerns. >> they really want to protect their students and themselves and their own families from getting this virus. we're in the middle of a pandemic. >> reporter: last night the board of education voted unanimously to begin a staggered reopening of its public schools. in two weeks the district's youngest students can return for hybrid learning, which includes a mix of in-person and virtual lessons. other grades will be phased in over time. but middle and high school students won't return until january. the palo alto educators association says that 90% of its members don't feel comfortable returning to the classroom this fall. teachers are concerned about whether they'll have enough access to ppe, air purifiers, and portable hand washing stations. and they wonder if their buildings are equipped for proper air flow. the reopening was opposed by

hundreds of parents who signed an online letter asking the board to delay the plan. a recall effort could now be in the works. >> where the kids finally feel stable, secure, safe, and a sense of normalcy. and right in this moment when the kids are just beginning to feel like the world may be starting to make sense again. >> reporter: but board members maintain that every day of in-person learning is essential to ensuring that students don't fall behind and that the district is following all county and state guidelines when it comes to the safety of staff and students. >> kindergartners are not built to be in front of the a screen at home all day. they're built to be in school with their classmates, on the playground and in the classroom. and under the watchful eyes of teachers who can assess them for what special needs they might have. >> reporter: for now students who choose ton return in person will have to stick with distance learning through the end of the year. in palo alto chris nguyen, abc 7 news. let's turn our attention to

sports. big night, ama, in sports. >> absolutely. let's get to chris alvarez with the latest. >> nba finals here but of course baseball big in the bay. the a's playing for their postseason lives today. win or go home. how they staved off elimination and forced another win humira patients,... ...this one's for you. you inspired us to make your humira experience even better... with humira citrate-free. it has the same effectiveness you know and trust, but we removed the citrate buffers, there's less liquid, and a thinner needle... with less pain immediately following injection. ask your doctor about humira citrate-free. and you can use your co-pay card to pay as little as $5 a month. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections,... ...including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened,... ...as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems,... ...serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common... and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections,... or have flu-like symptoms or sores.

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tonight the glass fire continues to grow in napa and sonoma counties. it is up to nearly 52,000 acres right now. cal fire says containment remains at just 2%. there are more evacuation orders and flames are now threatening more than 26,000 structures. we know more than 100 homes have been lost in the fire and dozens more damaged. so far, thankfully, no one has been hurt. here is a look at where the fire is burning. firefighters are preparing for more dry and breezy conditions. a red flag warning goes into effect tomorrow afternoon. meteorologist sandhya patel is here now with a look at the red flag weather conditions that we're facing. sandhya? >> yeah, dan. challenging conditions ahead for the firefighters especially fighting those fires. a red flag warning, 1:00 tomorrow afternoon for the north bay mountains. it runs until friday evening. it's a combination of northwesterly wind gusts, 25 to 30, that will dry out the