you never cease to amaze me, may see how investing with a j.p. morgan advisor can help you. visit your local chase branch. morning. thousands are fleeing the kin kads fire. thanks so much for joining us. we're on early because of this breaking news. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm kira klapper. we want to get you to the latest. many centers are to capacity right now. two main evacuation centers you can head to. the marin county fair grounds will open at 8:00 to accommodate evac yeets. it's at 10 and avenue of the

flags in san rafael. it's not open until 8:00. but in the next hour you're okay to line up and wait for the gates and doors to open. also the sonoma county fair grounds is accepting evacuees. the petaluma community center and fair grounds, the reason we're still mentioning to them, they're good meeting places. you can meet with people there and then evacuate together. the finley community center was an evacuation center and it has now been evacuated itself. again, if you need a place to stay, yourptions in the north bay are currently the marin county fair grounds and the sonoma county fair grounds. >> here's a look at the evacuation map you can see. look how wide it is. people should be ready to leave. in fact n many parts of sonoma county extends as far as mt.

stchlt helena to the east as far a south as sew bath i co-. highway 101 in santa rosa and cloverdale are told they're being reopened right now. they had shut them down in both directions which is concerning if you're trying to get out of the area. they managed to open them back up. this is the largest evacuation in sonoma county history. >> we're glad to see people are packed on 101. that means people are getting out and saving lives. >> they're heeding the warning. >> we want to take it live to bob redell live at the soda rock winery. it's off of 128. it was built in 1869. beautiful historic building now

destroyed. >> reporter: correct. sadly that is the case. if you're familiar with the winery, over there, that wall right there, there's the facade that's stone that's still standing. it's the only thing still standing in this complex. there was a white house that burned down. i believe this was the main part of the winery right in front of us. if you look to the left, another structure that has been incinerated by the fire. we're seeing people be evacuated as the gusts come through. you're looking to the south. if i could show you to the north, which i can't because we have a tree in the way, there would be fires elsewhere. if you think about it to the north and south, you have fire activity and what's going on right here in front of us. wow. look at those flames. they've got to be going up a

good 100 feet into the air burning to the south of us. there's one building left at soda rock, a winery. looks like a barn. cal fire -- the cal fire firefighters were here just a moment ago, but they did have someone here doing structure protection. so this is the last building you look at the sign, you can. see 1869. that's when this winery was founded. we believe this is the original site of the old grocery store here in healdsburg. i want you to look to the hills there again to show you this really magnificent sight of that fire burning throughout. that's part of the kincade fire where a lot of the firefighters are out there right now trying to get a handle on this. but with the wind and dry conditions, it's just not favorable for the fire. i did speak with cal fire

do.ier and what tre going one thing they would love do is get the air attack going. they had the 747 out here yesterday, that super tanker, which i believe is able to drop, i think, in the neighborhood of 90,000 gallons of retardant. they'll try to get that back out here. sadly the story right here at this location is we're at the soda rock refinery established in 1869. laura and kira. >> that was bob redell reporting for us from soda rock winery off of 128 in healdsburg. as he was saying since 1869. 150 years worth of history. the general store in sonoma county gone. >> we have new news.

30,000 acres have been consumed by this fire. it's been so destructive. it started last week. it got 10% containment so far. 2,500 personnel on the ground trying to tackle this fire. no doubt waiting for the sun to rise this morning so they can continue their aerial attack with the fire retardant and seeing what they can do. you know what's not helping this fire, the winds. they're really flanning the flames. >> meteorologist kari hall has been following the winds a has surprising numbers for us. >> this is surprising. i have a new update on the wind gusts in healdsburg hills. look at that. 93-mile-per-hour gusts. we had that within the last hour. so we're seeing these extremely strong winds, three more miles. that would be a category 2 hurricane. right now we have category 1 hurricane-force winds in

healdsburg, in the hims. then in mount saint helena, 80 miles an hour. hawkeye, 36-mile-per-hour gusts. novato hills up to 38. then we head thwart the east bay. we're monitoring the hills as well over the diablo range. we had a gust of 58 miles an hour. even going through pittsburg in the delta going through. that's not at all helping this fire fight, which has already spread quite a bit. this is a look at the outlying area. the fire perimeter has burned verylose to geyser villevil via healdsburg. because of the winds, it will spread the fire to the northwest. the humidity level down to 19%. when you have crisp dry air, it allows the flames to spread very

rapidly. not only that, you have winds pushing it. and the temperatures are very cold. think about this. fighting the fire and 43-degree temperatures. we have cold air. all of this, of course, because of the very strong cold front that swept through after a couple of days of hot temperatures. have a bunch of new cameras. as we await sunrise, we'll be better. as we get more light in the sky, these skies are brightening up the camera. at this point, we know the fire is burning out of control. as we go throughout the day, we're looking at our wind speed forecast. let's take the time line into the rest of the morning. at times the winds may gust a little higher. napa shows wind gusts at 55 miles an hour. and even in into the eat bay and valleys, we're going to have strong winds and in the north bay, winds staying up to 5 miles an hour for several miles throughout the day and we're

still going to have the gusty winds coming in from the north to northeast going into the evening. later on tonight it's still going to be breezy, but we'll gradually start to see the winds decrease especially by 11:00 tomorrow morning when the high wind warn willing expire. but between now and then, we do have a prolonged damaging wind event that could cause these fires to spread rapidly. we also have the red flag warning even in the valleys going throughout the day in the north bay as well as the east bay. and so our humidity levels. also the other part of this story. usually humidity as it goes up can keep the fire from spreading so rapidly. it doesn't move as much. as we go throughout today as well as tomorrow in the early morning hours when we normally see humidity levels going back up, it stays very low in the teens and lower 20s. i don't know if we want to take a look at the roads this morning. i have the traffic maps pulled

up on wsi 2. we can see people trying to get out of the way of the fire. we know highway 128 has been closed for some time as the fire has jumped that highway. and then for people in santa rosa, for a little while we had a section closed. now that's back over in all directions, which is good news because we're seeing a lot of traffic on this road. and we'ral sees some accident on some of the side roads. this is south of the highway. that's going to slow people down trying to get out of hafrm'say and move out of this evacuation zone. here's look at that road. highway 101 from santa rosa, aed then as you go to the south near roseland and also the roads that adjoin to highway 101 are very backed up at this point. i wanted to show you the extent of the backup as people try to evacuate 101 south going down through petaluma and approaching

san rafael. i put a measuring tool on here to see how long this line is. as of right now, it looks like it's about 20 miles of backup on highway 101. but then as you get out of the area, it's looking better. it's just for those people who are trying to think, should i evacuate. don't wait at this point because it's going to take a while to get out of there. you don't want to be in harm's way sitting on the road as they're not moving in this backup. we'll have more on this. i'm still keeps an eye on the 1-800-speed and forecast for the rest of the day. i'll have another update coming up in just a few minutes. >> thank you so much, kari. voluntary evacuations are already ord right now for oakley. >> oakley on bechtel -- bechtel

island road. a mobile home park has been evacuated 5067 evacuated. 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts have been reported. it's not clear what started it. >> from the oakley police department this morning we'll telling residents between tsand mound boulevard and bethel island, take items that you can carry and pet carriers. mets must be on a leash. stay on the phone unless you need to report a li life-threatening situation. >> it's something they're telling people to lock doors and windows. it's unfortunate. unfortunately when people are forced to evacuate there are liters who can come and take

advantage. >> if you're physically unable to leave your home or no someone, then they very encouraging you to call 911 so they can get some emergency personnel to those in need who are not able to leave. >> absolutely. i saw a grit tip on twitter for people in and around power outage areas and possible evacuation zones to help any neighbors you know get their cars out of their garages before they might lose power so they can be prepared to evacuate. >> we're going to continue to follow the fire that's burning, the kincade fire now con sumg over 30,000 acres. 11% containment. we'll have the very latest coming up. -live look at cal firs

towards the fire near st. helena -30 thousand acres welcome back on this sunday morning. it's 7:15. this is look at the fire. we have brand-new numbers for

you. 30,000 acres have now burned in sonoma county and the kincade fire is just 10% contained. there are new evacuations under way. thousands have had to leave their homes overnight. we know 49 homes and businesses completely destroyed. over 31,000 structures remain threatened by this fire. the winds overnight have been huge gusting winds, upward of 80 miles an hour in some spots. hurricane-force winds, and that's really fanning the flames along and making it a tough fight for firefighters. >> it's a historic wind event it's being called and a historic evacuation for the county of sonoma. it's the largest evacuation in the history of the county. 09,000 people are under evacuation orders, and those evacuation orders include the town of windsor. we're going to turn to the mayor of windsor who's joining us on

the phone. are you there? >> yes, yes. >> boy. i know it's been most likely a crazy 24 hours for you in the town of windsor. you managed to get a very good portion of those people out, like 95%. >> higher than that even. [ indiscernible ] we evacuated -- >> okay. we're vague little bit twrubl your line. it's hard to make out. >> yes. we got pretty much the entire city evacuated for the first time ever in about five hours. >> that's incredible. that's 50,000 people, is that right? >> no. in windsor there's about 40,000 people with a windsor address, in the greater windsor area. so a lot of people have done a phenomenal job by our leadership and law enforcement. >> tell us how you did that?

did you go door to door? have announcements going out. >> all of the above. in combination with social media, people talking to their neighbors and law enforce mnlts going to nearly every single door in the city. >> what about where to send people. one of the evacuation centers had to evacuate themselves. >> we were the ones able to put people -- took people on. we took care of the surrounding the air yachl now we're depending on the hospitality of our surrounding area. every singe one of our residents didn't get to sleep in their beds last night, so it's a rough thing. >> we are hoping and praying for your community. we are so pleased to hear that you were able to get your

community members out safely. >> yeah. that's a good thing. no injuries that we know of at all. what i'm most proud of is the community i'm in. there was no honking of horns. everybody was helping one another. we're a very, very strong community of windsor in order to get through this. >> the area of the bay is strong at this point. i guess you don't know the conditions of the downtown area or so many homes there. >> yeah. and it's not just the normal residents. we as the town leadership have gone through the same thing. we're now on our third eoc. we've evacuated two different emergency operation centers ourselves. we're currently in the parking lot on downtown santa rosa next

to the santa rosa operation centers and another evacuation zone trying to do what we can to keep sure we keep critical services in windsor. >> you're clearly doing a great job. dominic foppoli, the mayor of windsor. our best to you. thank you for your time this morning. it's 7:20. we'll continue to bring you the latest on the kincade fire right after this break.

welcome back. it's 7:2020 in t. we have new numbers. the fire has now scorch 30g,000 acres. it is 10% contained, but the winds have been picking up overnight, causing a lot of concerns. >> very much some of we've seen them blowing. we have reporters on the scene. i want to check in with meteorologist kari hall.

these are hurricane-force gusts here. >> yeah, in healdsburg we had wind gusts of 93 miles per hour. think about that. that's the speed of a very strong category 1 hurricane, almost a category 2. in st. helena, we had 96 miles an hour. in hawkeye, gusts of 63 miles per hour. we've been also track whg's been happening in bethable island. in pittsburg here. here's what we've seen so far. you're talk 30g,000 acres. most likely this will be expanding off to the west. we do expect the fire to spread to the southwest because the winds are coming in from the north and northeast. so it's pushing the fire in this direction. here's guyserville. that's already been cleared out.

windsor, and healdsburg down the road as people try to get out of the we of this very quick-moving fire. the temperatures are much colder, and this is all because of a very strong cold front that swept through this morning. the past couple of days were really hot. we had temperatures in the 90s. we wake up this morning to 43-degree temperatures. then we look at the smoke that's being pushed across the bay area. most of it has been pushed toward the central valley. we could at times see more smoke coming through. we also have live cameras as the sun comes up. we can see what's happening here from mt. st. helena. burning a lot of acreage here. we can see the smoke and plumes pushing off toward the side as the gusty winds continue out there this morning. this is a look from the healdsburg hills. unfortunately we're not going to see it any time soon.

if you're anywhere downstreet to the southwest in those evacuation zones. it's best to get out of the way. keep in mind it's going to take a while to evacuate because of the roads. even as we go throughout the day, we're looking at strong winds. we're taking the timeline. look at these wind gusts that continue over 50 miles an hour. this is not for the hills. it's for the valleys as well with the high wind gusts that will continue throughout the day and the high wind warnings to 11:00 this morning. let's switch over to the maps. from santa rosa that was cleared this morning. now it's open, but we do have a lot of people coming down from see baft poll and coming down through rohnert park. we're seeing them back up and go through petaluma. this is about a 20-mile backup that i'mg on the traffic map this morning.

it's moving very slowly. if sew if y so if you're thinking about whether or not to evacuate, go out there. we're trying to get to areas in northern sonoma county but has been stuck on the roads. how is it looking out there? >> reporter: well, kari, we were traveling on the northbound said heading into healdsburg. that was our game plan. one thing we noticed was the traffic on the southbound side. i want to show you. now we're heading out of healdsburg in the southbound direction. this is the current traffic. it's bumper to bumper. i'm near the college avenue exit. here's what it looks like. we did imagine to make it into the city of healdsburg, a portion of it.

not where the fire is actually burning over the hill. but we did encounter a couple of residents who seemed like they were driving around. once we stopped to speak with them, they were trying to get to someone's home. we advised them there are mandatory evacuations. so we're still seeing people driving through the neighborhood. it was pitch black, smoky, and gusty. we definitely seeing traffic building. i want to give youian update. the highway 101 southbound side is now open but traffic is building. i'll send it back to you. >> they're slowly, slowly getting through. thank you very much, vianey. good to see. over 90,000 people under evacuation orders and it looks like they're taking heed there. it's 7:27. we'll continue to bring you the latest tonkin cade fire raging overnight. 30,000 acres scorched and just 10% containment. we'll be back right after this.

breaking news. 80-mile-per-hour winds fueling and fanning the flames as communities in sonoma county are fleeing the kincade fire. thanks so much for joining us. we've been on air and early and continuing coverage this morning because of this breaking news. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm kira klapper. we want to get you to the latest tonkin cade fire. 30,000 acres have been scorched. that's the new number into our newsroom in the last 30 minutes. the fire stands at 10% containment, which is some good news there. but with the winds picking up overnight, it's scary to think what's happening. we want to give you the latest on the evacuations. many evacuation centers are at capacity. if you need a place to stay, there are two main places accessing residents beginning at 8:00 a.m. the marin county fair grounds

will open at 8:00 to accommodate evacuees. if you'd like to go now, you're able to line up there. also the sonoma county fair grounds is accepting evacuees. we want to give you a list of evacuation shelters that are full at the moment. the veterans building is full. petaluma veterans building is full. community center is full and the petaluma fair grounds are at capacity. the finley community center was full and then was evacuated itself because it is now in the evacuation zone. the full evacuation centers can be used as meeting places. the fair grounds very currently accessing the evaces. >> it gives you an idea.

it goes as far as mount st. helens to the east as far as sebastopol. you see there it goes all the way to the coastline. these are mandatory evacuation orders in place and also we have been following this this morning. highway 101 in santa rosa between santa rosa and cloverdale was closed. it's now reopened. traffic is very slowly moving along as people are just trying to evacuate these zones. our own bob redell is reporting live for us this morning from soda rock winery in healdsburg. bob, we've seen you in the last hour and half. you were in the pitch black. we saw flames higher than your head and now as the sun begins to rise, utter devastation, but be you y told us this is a 150-year-old historic winery. >> reporter: establishing in 1869.

at this point right now, soda rock winery doesn't have much left to burn. all you had was an old white house. now all you have left is a foundation. a couple of hours ago this house wastanding here and we watched the embers fly from the other fire and start to catch this on fire. sadly it went up in flames. here's the main winery over here, what's left of it. you see some of it's still burning. as you move to the left, you have this large stone facade. that's all that remains of the main building. let's walk down here. if you've been up here before, you may recognize it because of the stone facade. you can see everything is gone. there's also this rusted metal sculpture of a wart hogg. that's another landmark. i'm pointing that out in case that jogs your memory like, oh, i remember this place. embers or something, i talked to the fire crew. it did catch fire.

what's sad and remarkable watching this, as the wind was coming in here, those embers and flames traveled fast. we've seen spot fires some from here, to over here, other locations on the property. there's nothing left to consume. let's take a look at the video. again, this is about 90 minutes ago. you can see how intense this fire was. like i said, when the wind was picking up, it was -- you realize just how dangerous it is to be close to a fire like this because the embers start blowing in your direction, because of the smoke. and, again, i bring this up. it goes to the point of cal fire emphasizing to people if you're ordered to evacuate you must evacuate and here's why, because it's so dangerous. now, if you come back out here live, the area you saw burning on tv, this is what it looks like right now. that's all that's left. and i want you to look in the background. the vineyards and into the hills. you see all that smoke?

that's part of the main fire. that's still burning. there is a part of the fire that's burning to the north of us. i can't show you because there's trees blocking the view. but on ieeither side, north, south, you see the fire here. the one strurk that remains at soda rock is this old barn, wooden barn. and on the opposite side of it cal fire is standing by to do structure protection. fortunately right now, we're not seeing the kind of wind protection we saw earlier this morning where we saw the embers jumping all over the property and starting spot fires. so right now the winds have died down. but i heard cari mention 90 mile-an-hour plus winds. we weren't is inially feeling that, but we felt gusts in the 40- to 50-mile-an-hour range.

very gusty, very bad conditions if you're trying to put out a fire. >> that's amazing. have your photographer show us the stone wall, the entrance of the winery. >> you want a before and after? >> yeah. it's phenomenal. outsta outstanding. >> you see the backside of it. it is a fa said. i was thinking it has metal supports some of what you actually have is a layer of brick and then you have a layer of stone that's the facade. i assume this is kind of the signature image of soda wrock winery. let's get rafael get up there. >> i'm sorry you had to walk so far. >> no, no, no. there's nothing else to burn. all that's left is sheet metal

and stone and concrete. >> it gives you a perspective. >> look at that. >> this is from hours ago. bob, you were talking about how this is a historic building. it's from 1869. it's the original site of the alexander valley general store. laura and i are sitting here and watching the incredible pictures you're bringing us. i'm reading the website. ken and diana purchased the property 19 years ago and they just went through a ten-year renovation to bring this out of disrepair because it's such an important part of the alexander history. >> look at that. so sad. just devastating. >> just gone. >> reporter: i can't emphasize, kira and laura, just the enormous power of wind and embers and watching these embers jump from building to building.

you know, embers are small particles. you know. they're enough with the wind to just take down an entire structure. of course, get in your eyes and ears and that sort of thing. i can't emphasize the power of how destructive those embers are and how they feel a lot of what you're seeing right here. i don't know exactly what started this particular fire, if it was embers or when the main fire came through, but i do know once this fire start it spread easily to other parts of the property because of the wind and embers. >> right. exactly. we saw them blowing there. bob redell. he's at what was once soda rock winery. he's surrounded by the kincade fire. we'll continue to bring you the very latest right after this break. please stay with us. tv just keeps getting better.

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a raging fire known as the kincade fire. 30,000 acres burned. 90,000 people are under evacuation. >> the largest they've ever had in sonoma county. let's check in with kari hall. >> 93 miles per hour, the winds. that's almost a hurricane category 2 strength. need winds are rushing in the higher elevations. we're still looking at a large area, the kincade fire highlighting the perimeter of so far where the fire has burned. this may be expanded to the southwest near geyserville as we get the updates. it's also very cold. these temperatures, 43 right now because of that strong cold front that's been sweeping through, and we also have some

very low humidity now that the sun is up we're getting a better view of the fires in the hills. very steep terrain. we're seeing the bright embers and the flames coming up on the camera along with the smoke billowing out from e.ther this is looking at it from the hills. i've been looking at all of our cameras on our site and pg&e's sight. i saw this fire. looks like smoke and flames east of the petaluma area. we haven't gotten any con fir mag on this, but we'll be monitoring this as we watch for the potential of new fire as we go throughout the day all because of the gusting winds. unfortunately as we go throughout the rest of the day, these winds are not expected to calm down. even at 9:00, we're looking at napa getting winds at 59 miles an hour. the east bay, up to 39 to 40 miles an hour. south bay, 15 to 20 miles an

hour, beginning even stronger as we go throughout the day. as we see these winds coming in from the northeast, anywhere from the southwest there is where those flames will be spreading along with some very poor air quality as the smoke moves in. with low visibility and the fire moving, that's the reason they had to clear out this whole area all the way over toward the coast because we don't know how far this is going to expand, and it's best to get out of harm's way throughout the day because there's not going to be much firefighters can do under these conditions. going into the evening, the models are swing wind speeds and gusts over 30 miles an hour, even possibly 40 in parts of the north bay. as you go up in the north bay, the winds getting stronger. all of this moving through because of a strong front moving past. so as the winds are rushing over the central valley and into the bay area, moving over the mountains, it just accelerates. think of going downhill on a

bicycle. the winds can do the same thing. as they go downhill, it moves faster. that's the reason we see the high gusts even in some of the valleys today. the high wind warnings continue throughout the day and doesn't expire until 11:00 tomorrow morning. that includes all of these purple shaded areas in the north bay and the red flag warning meaning high fire danger will be in effect tr the rest of the north bay and east bay. we've been watching a fire in bethel island seeing if that gets under control. they're issuing a voluntary evacuation in the oakley area. we'll have update thoons. we'll be monitoring the wind speeds and the rest of what's going on with our forecast. we only have a small window before the next windy bit moves in. i'll have more on that coming up. lauren and kira? >> thank you very much. a concern that the high winds

won't end until tomorrow morning. >> and then as kari said, more on wednesday. 'll bring you the latest on the fire in bethel island. it's shy of 7:45. we'll be back right after this. ♪ ♪

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the kincade fire that has taken over with 30,000 acres consumed, with all the smoke from the fire, you can see in the bay area. this is just into our newsroom. this is just along peninsula, highway 101. no doubt we'll see some pretty spectacular sunsets, but they're coming at a very high price. we want to turn now to tony davis who's joining us on the phone from cal fire. thank you so much for joining us this morning. we know you are the busiest of all the busy, fighting the kincade fire. tony, what can you tell us this morning? >> well, we're at 30,000 acres,

10% contained. we have about 39 struin danger destroyed. >> did you say 75? 79 destroyed. that could be a number of buildings. could be a resident, outbuilding, business, or along those lines. it doesn't necessarily all fall into one category. >> right. >> toni, as we're talking to you, we're taking a look overhead. of course, there's so much smoke. the winds have been so high. talk about the toughest fight so far even overnight for your firefighters. >> you know, last night was a long night. these guys have been working

aggressively and as safely as possible to make sure they are protecting absolutely whatever they can as we get these sporadic winds. i know that there's been several orders -- not several but call that were mandated. we ask people to calmly evacuate their homes and get on the highway on south 101 and get out of hafrmrm's way. we mean it when we say it's an evacuation order. you need to get out. >> tell me. your crews are looking at a full day of this high wind event. our meteorologist said the winds aren't expected to die down until 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. is that kind of your time line

that you're focused on right now, just making it through the day today until the winds die down tomorrow? >> you know, yes. right now as far as what i've been told this morning, the wind is going to continue today. so, yes. the fire fight is going to continue and these guys are heads-up big time on the behavior of our wind directions and also the previous historical fire danger that's been going on. >> low humidity, dry conditions. we know when the fire broke out last week, your crews had to deal with a lot of dry brush and whatnot. now we see all these structures consumed as well. now that the sun has risen, will you get a better assessment of how you're going to be able to tackle this fire today? i would imagine air assaults are coming soon.

>> are you there? >> yes. can you hear us, toni? did you lose us? >> i think i lost you for a second. what was your question? >> now that daylight is here, you should probably have a better idea how you're going to tackle this. last weeng there was so much dry brush, but now you've got structures. how do you go about putting your crews out there? >> i'm sorry. it's breaking up. all right. we'll let you go unfortunately. we were hoping to get a little information. that was toni hale. >> toni davis from cal fire. we had a couple of people were were going to speak with. that was toni davis. >> we really saw the steep terrains they were dealing with there, the dry brush, the low humidity. we know we haven't seen any rain, no precipitation at all.

kari hall tells us there's none sight at all. with the wind fanning the flames, it's so hard for the fire crews bringing in a lot of heavy equipment. i would imagine a lot of the aerial attacks to put the flame retardants down as well. we'll continue now thaz the sunlight is up. the smoke is a factor as well. >> oh, my gosh. we showed peninsula from the sky covered in smoke. so even though this is relegated to sonoma county, the rest of the bay area is seeing the impact of this. you know something we actually haven't touched on in a little bit? we're talking about the kincade fi fire. we're talking about the evacuation in sonoma county. we haven't mentioned in a while the 940,000 people without power across the bay area to ensure that something like this doesn't spread to another county. >> nearly 1 million people without power right now and 90,000 evacuated.

>> yes. >> unprecedent. a historic wind event. a historic evacuation going on in sonoma county. the one sliver of good news is we had a little bit of a warning thanks to people like meteorologist kari hall who saw this coming and knew that this is what the weekend would look like. >> that's right. in fact, let's check in with meteorologist kari hall right now. the thing is these winds are going to continue until 11:00 tomorrow morning? >> right. the prolonged wind that we're expecting. to see it on the computer models, to talk about it is one thing tochl witness it happened is disheartening to see, especially with the wildfire burning out of control. look at the wind gusts we've seen this morning. up to 93 miles per hour, just unbelievably strong winds in the healdsburg hills. and mt. saint helena had 96

miles an hour. and in the bay, 45 miles an hour. cutting through livermore this morning. it really was gusty, and i had to keep a tight grip on the steering wheel. getting out and about is dangerous this morning. there was trash and tumbleweeds going across the roads. that also creates probms. you can see in san francisco the flag waving in the wind and we can see the trees on the edge of the tree as the pole with the cameras on it is shaking because of the high winds. right now, over 30 miles an hour there. as we head up toward the kincade fire, we've seen gusts in this area. this shows the observation on cobb mountain nearby. it's very cold. 43 degrees. very chilly temperatures. low humidity and high winds. all of this is a recipe for this fire to continue to grow and spread moving off toward the south and west and to the south of this area as we've seen this fire do over the past couple of

days. even away from, this we're going to see this smoke threat again. we're going to see thick smoke on our radar and satellite imagery especially toward solano county and thwart northern contra costa county and near bethel island and areas off toward teast. smoky conditions today. we're seeing lots of the smoke billowing up in the air. as the sun comes up, we've seen intense flames coming off of some of the hills. we talked about that steep terrain which makes it so hard for those firefighters to battle. looking at another view of the smoke coming up and the fire spreading very rapidly. not too long ago i saw this camera trying to get an update on what's happening. it looks like it's in the al va rah noe area on sleepy mountain. i can see the smoke coming from this area. we're waiting to see if this is

possibly a new fire. we had a strong kcold front com through. it's creating a high fire danger. as we've seen those gusts over 80 miles per hour. but also as that wind descends over the central valley, comes over the hills and down into the bay area, it accelerates. we're looking at high winds and low humidity that has not let up because we have this cold front moving in and high pressure nearby. it create as high pressure gradient which makes the air flow very rapidly. we're going to see as we go throughout the day. 40- to 50-mile-an-hour gusts not letting up throughout the afternoon. any where in those areas where they've had to evacuate along the coast, it's because of the persistent winds that will stay with us even with the time line tomorrow morning. we're still seeing some of the high winds that will continue

throughout late tomorrow morning. once again with the kincade fire, you'll want to evacuate. if you're still thinking about whether or not 'zo, it's time to leave because we're also seeing a lot of traffic on the roads. the wind speeds have been topping 80 miles an hour and the strong winds will continue throughout the day. looking farther down the line, what else are we expecting here. gusty winds throughout the day. winds gradually calming down tomorrow. on tuesday it will be another claim day but another system could come through on wednesday that could create another fire danger and low humidity. gusty winds picking up. once again, if you're looking for a time for the firefighters to get more coin tanment on this, the wind dough is very small. mostly on tuesday as we see the calm weather conditions before another system comes in going into wednesday. very unfortunate news, laura and kira. no rain and also more wind events possible. >> that's right. not giving firefighters a break

at all. thang you very much, kari. >> we now have an update. over 180,000 are under evacuation. 's up from 90,000. stay with us for the latest on the kincade fire at nbcbayarea.com.

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