exactly how this thing started. that it's a very technical process and we could be in for a very long time before we find out exactly what started this fire. >> sure. and he also talked about people who were evacuated thousands of have been evacuated so far. at least 43 shelters have been set up in the area and they are at 40% capacity which is good. it means that there is room for anyone who needs to evacuate. and they warn people also in that area, um, in the fire area, if you are in a neighborhood that hasn't been evacuated yet, at least prepare to self-evacuate if you don't feel comfortable, if you feel like you need to do that. at least prepare because that evacuation order may come tonight, tomorrow, in the next few days. >> another highlight that ken warned the possibility of winds of 45 miles an hour or more. with low humidity that's not ideal for firefighting. >> this is a look at the latest

numbers now. the atlas fire in napa and solano counties has now burned 48,000 acres. it's at 27% containment. the tubbs fire in napa county is nearly 35,000 acres and is 25% contained. and the nuns fire is now a combination of several fires burning 44,000 acres with 5% containment. >> and here's an overview look at the fires burning in northern california. still a lot ground to cover. and the weather of course could play a big role in the fight today and into the weekend. >> kpix 5's jackie ward begins our team coverage live from the napa valley college evacuation center with the latest there. jackie. >> reporter: so some of these fires are beginning to consolidate as they move from sonoma into napa county where we are this afternoon. that is forcing them to merge. so five of the big name fires are now under the umbrella of what they are calling the nuns fire. prior to this morning we knew that the adobe, norrbom and nuns fire had all become one.

today the partrick and presley fires are expected to join nuns. the cal fire chief tells us that a thick smaller fire is in the mix, as well. while the weather is still cooperating before this red flag warning takes effect, they hope to get a lot of productive work done. >> we have a fireline that's uncontained. anytime we have uncontained fire lines it's a concern because it will continue to progress. so anywhere we have uncontained lines to where we need to reinforce lines, that still have fire activity in it, those are our priorities right now. >> reporter: some of the big fires on the sonoma side of the ridge are now working their way on to the napa side compounding the effort of putting these fires out. so some of the major areas in concern in napa, dry creek road, areas above rutherford and st. helena. this area is where cal fire says the flames are heading towards. cal fire plans to put containment lines in there today. the nuns fire is now over

44,000 acres and is 5% contained. the tubbs fire is the reason calistoga is under a mandatory evacuation. it started on wednesday because cal fire says the tubbs fire is working towards that city but they are doing everything they can to keep it from coming into the city. jackie ward, kpix 5. jackie, thank you. immigration and customs enforcement released this statement about suspending immigration checks in the area saying, quote, i.c.e. will continue to suspend routine immigration enforcement operations in the areas affected by the fires in northern california. immigration enforcement will not be conducted at evacuation sites or assistance centers." kpix 5's anne makovec joins us now live in oakville. anne, you got really close to the flames this morning. how are things now? >> reporter: yeah. certainly smoky here in oakville. i'm along highway 29 here in napa valley. you can see the famous welcome

to napa valley sign here behind me and behind that, all of that smoke right now rising above the hillside as these wildfires continue to spread. smoke is pouring over oakville grade filling the canyons near sugarloaf ridge state park. it's all part of a complex of fires in napa and sonoma counties that continues to expand. >> it's tragic. it's -- it's very sad. >> reporter: jason cox lives in browns valley and is monitoring the fire's progress with his own eyes. >> the way things are going, it's been moving so fast that we check every few hours, come down the street and take a look. >> reporter: this is what we encountered on dry creek road at 4:30 a.m., flames burning close to homes which were between our camera's vantage point and the fire. dry creek is a tight winding drive so we left. some people are still there. >> we were fortunate we didn't have the catastrophic winds blowing. >> reporter: he is part of a

strike crew from ventura county that went in overnight to hold the fire back. >> it's difficult to get out in front of it. there's not enough fire trucks that we can stack up to stop the fire when it makes runs like we've seen. >> reporter: most of the wineries along highway 29 are closed for business. for now, most appear to be out of danger. but we know how quickly things change. >> we are ready for this to -- to -- to be over for sure. >> reporter: now, the winds have been pretty calm around this area today. but as we have been talking about, they are expected to pick up this weekend and that's going to be key in how well firefighters are able to contain these fires. live in oakville, anne makovec, kpix 5. >> so many concerns for the residents there. anne, thank you so much. just a short time ago, chopper 5 gave us a look over the devastation at coffey park in santa rosa. reporter natasha chen is in sonoma county with the very latest.

natasha. >> reporter: right now, we are in front of a burned dairy farm. you can see how much this has been score. including the blacked out hills there. the conditions are so smoky in fact it's gotten smokier just in the last hour, that we can't even see that hill and the vineyard right in front of us. it's really quite incredible here. the spot where we're at is actually the southern end of the partrick fire and we know that the nuns fire is just not too far away north of there. so again, very smokey here and we have been told that some of the evacuees who have been allowed to return back in napa have been told because the smoke is everywhere, they have to throw out all their food including the non-perishables. this is a common sight along the side of the road just not just a farm but vineyards and businesses, homes as you know, that have been completely burned. >> a lot of damage.

natasha, how about the firefight? what's the focus today? >> reporter: well, the partrick fire seems to have gotten to 18% containment. the nuns fire to 5% containment. so while that doesn't sound like a big number, we were even lower before. these are the largest fires that have had the most trouble in fire crews making that progress. the good news is some of the smaller fires hot south of us, for example -- to the south of us, for example, are getting a lot more progress done. for example, the highway 37 fire is completely contained. so again, as you probably know, there are higher winds expected tonight into tomorrow. that can create a challenge for them so they are going to focus on maintaining those perimeters and defending the structures near these fires. >> natasha chen in sonoma county, thank you. and a live look now in napa where of course the winds could play a big role in the firefighting efforts throughout the day and into this weekend.

neda iranpour is here with the weather concerns. >> yeah. you can see in that live shot the smoke moving one direction. it looks like winds are slowly picking up but they are nowhere near as bad as they will get later on today. here's our vaca cam. you see the smoke in the valley. i wanted to show you the winds right now in those neighborhoods. in napa, west-southwest winds at just 6. north-northeast in calistoga. yountville 6-mile-per-hour winds. sonoma six, as well. glen ellen, st. helena, looks like calm conditions. so what we're going to start to see is those winds picking backup not until later on tonight. right now, throughout the rest of the bay area, west winds for hayward, west-northwest at 8- mile-per-hour winds for fremont. it looks like it's helping clear those skies out there right now. it's not as hazy as what we experienced yesterday afternoon. for example, we are going to see that smoke return and the winds pick up so the winds are going to stay calm today. offshore winds will return especially at midnight. temperatures are also going up

and that's of course why we have this red flag warning in effect starting at 5 p.m. through saturday night with those sustained winds expected 20 to 30. we heard those firefighters gusts up to 45 maybe 50 miles per hour over those ridgetops. and humidity will be dropping. the areas of the highest concern, napa hills, unfortunately. mount st. helena, east sonoma county and marin county, as well as mount tamalpais up there. midnight to noon is the areas -- the timing, rather, when we're going to start to see the winds intensify so throughout the day, calmer conditions similar to what we're experiencing now until 5:00 or 6:00 and then look at this. we are going to start to see the winds really pick up steam. this is 11:00 tonight. we could see 20 to 30-mile-per- hour winds then until about 6 a.m. so those firefighters have an overnight battle and it's going to continue through the day on saturday. i'll talk more about those temperatures and the heat-up we're going to have coming up. back to you guys. >> thank you. as neda said, the choking

smoke continues to foul the air miles away from the fires throughout the bay area. the haze has been sitting overhead and that has a lot of people wearing facemasks to try to protect themselves from the bad air. we have seen an increasing numbering of people walking around with them in san francisco. a lot of stores are having trouble keeping them on the shelves. >> utility crews keep working to reconnect gas and electricity as well after wildfires knocked out service for tens of thousands of customers. pg&e says that 29,000 homes and businesses are still without power including more than 24,000 in the santa rosa area. and 5800 in the napa area, as well. well over 30,000 customers remain without gas service. people all over the bay area looking for ways to help with the fire relief effort can donate to the red cross by calling this number on your screen, 1-800-red-cross or go to redcross.org and for other ways to help, go to our website, cbssf.com. still ahead, we continue to

keep tabs on evacuations throughout parts of wine country. this is a live look from napa. you can see a lot of evacuees there. we'll be right back.

this is a live look at napa the mondavi winery with the world famous sign and you can see the smoke in the air. there is a red flag warning this weekend going into effect

today. a town hall meeting is scheduled for tonight in sonoma county to update the public on the firefight and resources available to fire victims. cal fire reps and local lawmakers will attend at the sonoma veterans memorial building on first street at 7:00. now to a heart-wrenching story about a couple who clung to each other as the flames came close to them. they stayed in a swimming pool. carmen gripped her husband of 55 years as the towering flames consumed a home they rented in santa rosa. they were unable to flee the area but her husband, armando, got the idea to jump into the pool to escape the flames. they huddled there for hours. eventually carmen, who had a history of lung troubles, stopped breathing. she died in her husband's arms. >> those two together were one person. and the love they had for each other was something that everybody has always admired

and loved. >> now, armando survived in the pool. his face, head and hands were burned but he is expected to survive. the couple had been vacationing in wine country. verizon is helping people because communications has been tough in wine country. so the company is helping people affected by the wildfires get in touch with loved ones. it's actually using microwave technology to offer connectivity on its networks. disaster response teams are setting up trailers with internet access, laptops and phone charging stations. >> at the time of need, you have to be able to reach out to loved ones, friends, family to let each other know how you are. >> the disaster response team is also continuing to refuel generators at cell sites so they can keep running until commercial power is restored the oakland raiders still haven't made a final call on whether they will play their game against the chargers at the coliseum on sunday. the team says it's continuing

to monitor air quality conditions in the bay area. the chargers have offered to move the game to san diego but at this point the game is still going to be sunday in oakland. and that air quality is pretty bad out there. >> mm-hm. it is. it's feeling -- it's like several days of this over and over again. a lot of people are feeling it in their lungs at this point. people of all ages and all health conditions. you can see the smoke settling into a lot of the valleys. i want to show you what's in store for us. calm, cool conditions today. so you may have noticed that. it's chilly. now winds are going to increase tonight, humidity drops, through tomorrow night. what we are going to see is warmer weather taking over. so the past couple of days, we have had cooler conditions out there. but temperatures are on the rise. so that's not a good combination especially when you mix that with these high winds. wind advisory starting tonight through tomorrow night through those north and east bay hills. the area of the fire zone. this is not what we want to see gusts 40 to 50 miles per hour

especially over the ridges, those peaks. we could see more flying embers and debris and downed trees and power lines, wind gusts reach that high. so anything above 1,000 feet. i want to show you futurecast. this one gives you a good glimpse of the actual areas where those fires are burning. so here we are with st. helena right now. this noon hour. look at this. calm conditions. and then 7:00 tonight we'll start to see those winds pick up for healdsburg, santa rosa, sebastopol. petaluma may feel breezy later on tonight. now, 10:00 tonight, that's when calistoga, st. helena, glen ellen, yountville, sonoma will start to see those winds sustained around 20, 25, even 30 miles per hour. by midnight, though, you will really start to see these colors get deeper. when you see areas of purple, that could be very intense with wind gusts. so those higher elevation are really in trouble here. that's the napa hills. st. helena 23. by 2 a.m., calistoga 30 likely

by then and then by 4 a.m., this is widespread purple we're looking at here so more intense gusts happening around 4 a.m. in the higher elevations. from 4 to 6 a.m., the firefighters are going to have a tough battle. it's going to stay strong through 8 a.m. tomorrow. then at noon, things will start to settle down. we are seeing a little more yellow a little more orange and then finally afternoon through midnight tomorrow night, we'll start to see more calming. so really the intense wind is going to be between midnight, 8 to 9 a.m. affecting our air quality. right now our air quality conditions very unhealthy in the areas of purple. areas of orange unhealthy. livermore in the moderate range, the only area now that's somewhat okay but still it's best to limit outdoor activities all weekend. we are going to be in for it for the next couple of days. very unhealthy air in the forecast today, a "spare the

air" day today and tomorrow. here's the temperatures for today at least cool in the low to mid-70s. and sunset happening tonight at 6:34 p.m., sunrise 7:17. and i want to show that you seven-day forecast because we are going to see a chance of rain in it. but we are going to have to wait for it so the next three days, temperatures will be on the rise. so 80s in store for saturday through monday. wednesday and thursday chance of rain. >> thank you. still ahead, spending a birthday in a shelter. how volunteers came together to make sure a little boy evacuated from the fire still got his celebration. we are the generation that had it all.

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tackling the wine country wildfires. and they're getting rest... whenev firefighters from the bay area and all over the west are tackling these wine country wildfires and they are getting some rest whenever and wherever they can on the ground, on patio chairs here. these are pictures from the sebastopol fire department on facebook. and our heartfelt gratitude goes out to all of those first respondersout there. >> they have been working so hard. one evacuation center in sonoma county didn't let the fire cancel a little boy's birthday celebration. reporter lemor abrams shows us the party won't forget. >> happy birthday to you ♪

>> reporter: all chris wanted for his fifth birthday was a cake. but he got a much sweeter celebration in the most unlikely place. >> who are all these people? >> um, they're my friends. >> reporter: his new friends at the sonoma valley high school an evacuation center for hundreds of families who lost everything in the raging inferno burning miles away from here. but mom managed to save her son's birthday outfit her family sent from india then the fire department delivered hardhats, a local bakery donated a cake and this happened. >> whoo!cheers >> happy birthday. >> thank you! [ applause and cheers ] >> i'm so happy. >> they were expecting not to celebrate again. >> reporter: volunteers had a different plan. >> this got set up quickly. we have so much community support. we don't know what to do. >> reporter: even the sonoma mayor wanted to be there and together they rounded up money for a gift. it so happens he loves fire

trucks. >> thank you, everyone! >> awwww. that's so sweet. love that. that was lemor abrams. >> good to see smiles with all this devastation. >> we'll be right back.

a quick check of the weekend forecast. >> yeah. let's show you what's going on outside right now. it is hazy but not as bad as yesterday but it's going to get bad because winds are on the rise, temperatures are cool though right nower 60s for san

francisco and san jose. and look what's in store. okay. so the next three days we have high pressure. that's not good. that means warm weather in store and stronger winds but look up at the top of your screen there. that's green. i wanted to show you green. that means we are going to get rain possibly on wednesday or thursday. it could get down into our area by the time we get to -- there it is -- wednesday night into thursday. that will be some much-needed relief. >> that's it. have a great afternoon. cbs eye on the community...

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