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devastating wildfire in butte county, the death toll stands at 48, it is the deadliest in state history already. 200 people still considered missing and today sheriffs released the names of 103 of those who remain unaccounted for. more than 15,000 remain threatened. 210 square miles have been scorched in the weeks since it started that's about the size ofpaolo alto taking a live look now in chico.. where any moment.. . ryan zinke took a look at the camp fire's destruction. any moment the governor and secretary are expected to provide an update on the relief efforts on the silver dollar fairgrounds, yesterday governor ground announced the presidential major disaster
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declaration. another day of snow ma county school closures, gravnstein school district, the river montessori, santa rosa junior college, the university will stay open but outdoor activities are canceled. those whose big day was compromised by the fire the butte creek country club is offering the venue for free. the country club will wave its fees for friday and saturday. here are a few ways you can help the fire victims call 1800 red cross to make a monetary donation, or text butte fire to 91999 to donate to the united way. the salvation army also has its own hot line number, 1800-cell- army,. pg and e is facing a lawsuit in connection with the deadly camp fire, accusing pg
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and e of failing to properly maintain power lines and demanding a jury trial. the official cause of the fire is unknown, the utility told regulators it had a problem with the transmission line in that area just before the. now to a live look in pataluma, you can see it is still very hazy, the unhealthy air continues, we'll check in with our meteorologist mary lee. that's right michelle, we're tracking that smoke unhealthy air across the bay area here in the red dot showing the worse out of that, with that air quality. here is a live look at our tower camera and visibility down to 1 mile in livermore, two and a half in the oakland airport. looking at four miles in concord, 5-miles for santa rosa
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as well as napa. we've seen second worst air quality reported saturday february 9th a day after the campfire broke out with the valley of 225, the all time record for the worse air quality in the bay area of 269 for an aqi value was october 13th of last year that's when the wine country wildfires were going on. anything above 200 that's very unhealthy air. well we'll take you throughout the future cast, show you when we'll see at least on shore winds and a return of at least better air quality and also the chance for much-needed rain. wildfires continue to burn in southern california this afternoon. ann macavic has more on the fire. >> firefighters spread so thinly right now. the new fire started in san bernadino county, the woolsey
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fire continues to burn. >> a third person is confirmed dead in the fire, the body was found in a home in agora hills the number of people killed is expected to climb. its been burning since thursday along the ventura and la county border, firefighters dealing with flare-ups in the hills over night as the 150 square miles already burned continue to smolder in the wind. >> tyler started to evacuate from his home but decided to turn around to douse the embers. >> the fire jumped from the top of that ridge to my house within a 3 minute period. >> i've lived in malibu for 45 years i've been through all of these fires, they were not prepared. >> forest stuart was one of many people who live in malibu expressing frustration how the fire and evacuations were handled. stuart credits his neighbor were saving his house. >> he and his wife are 85, they stood out there all night and
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knocked out embers that hit my house. >> 1,000 people have been under evacuation orders for almost a week, to the east of los angeles the sierra fire continues to burn starting near riealto and feeding on heavy vegetation, blew 2 to 20 acres in 15 minutes and went onto scorch 150 acres before firefighters stopped its spread. that woolsey fire is now 47% contained and the sierra fire that you saw is 75% contained. calmer winds in the forecast today will help fire fighters in the days ahead. rain is still more than a week away. thank you. this afternoon all lanes are finally back open nearly 8 hours after a nasty crash on a sanoma county highway. before 4 a.m. on 101 north of west railroad avenue. say a car lost control hit a
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rail and then came to a rest in one of the lanes when the ups big rig slammed into it, flipped over sending debris flying all over the place, chp says the driver took off on foot right before the crash. >> he hate the guardrail, went out in the lanes and flipped the scene at last we heard he was running east towards the town. >> the driver was taken to the hospital but will be okay. a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza if there is a way to cut down on traffic across the bay, transportation officials want to consider it. kpix 5 reporter tells us about options. >> the bay area tole authority is -- replacing them with all electronic tolls. now while this would only decrease traffic by an average of about 7 minutes the metropolitan transportation commission says that's significant whether it is the
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bay bridge, or 5 other state bridge that has cash tolls getting through this grid lock can be slow-going. >> obviously want to improve the efficiency of the freeway system all around the region and the toll plazas are an obvious bottleneck. >> the metropolitan transportation have two ways, one by replacing toll cameras that would take pictures of your license plate without you to stop. just like at the golden gate bridge, this would cost an estimated $23 million, the other more expensive option would be removing the tolls and create an open road tolling system for a price tag of $55 million that's what they would prefer to do. >> implementation is challenging, we do think there is a couple different ways to attack it if the authority is interested in pursuing the work. >> mtc data shows 70% of drives
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using fast track and 80% by 2020. this combine with data shows cutting down with greenhouse commissions seemed to please the committee. >> this was instructly an informational setting a decision which to pursue won't be made until the beginning of next year. once the committee decides what it will do, it will take another two to three years for the new system, also ashored the toll authority that current collectors would receive job training if tolls were to go away. >> the first waive of central american migrants that formed last month have reached the u.s. mexico border, many with a goal of crossing into the united states now literally within site about 100 migrant men, women and children are in tijuana, the first of a much larger group to reach that border. some traveled more than 2,000-
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miles but the trump administration hasn't budged nearly 6,000 troops have been assigned to the border region according to one defense official. still ahead, another white house staff shake-up could be on the way, who could be out next, why melania trump is playing a key roll. take a look at our newly- elected members of congress, what nancy pelosi has to say about the class. >> the wall street down about 52 points. we'll be right back after this.
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back to chico now.. where
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governor brown.. and interior secretary ryan zinke are getting read took of the bu . back to chico where governor brown and ryan ziki are getting ready to greet us on a tour they took on a burn zone of the camp fire in paradise, they are going to give us an update on the relief efforts there. let's listen in. first with tremendous response great work by all of the firefighters and cal fire, into the recovery process as we're starting to work with local communities to frame that up within days of the fire itself, the governor was able to secure federal disaster assistance and declared a major disaster declaration, we appreciate the work fima has done that will be very important as we move forward. we know dozens have lost their lives so far, there is still individuals unaccounted for, this will remain a priority for
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all of us. this is not going to be an easy task, but the operations will be thorough and exhaustive and will take the time and you will need to know we're doing everything we can at the state and federal level with our other partners and local government throughout the state and with organizations throughout the country, actually. we're going to continue to support those who are evacuated support the town of paradise and butte county in that recovery process. the governor has ordered all state agencies and personnel to respond to this event to meet whatever requirements are necessary, mutual aide has been deployed throughout the state of california and the western united states literally thousands of firefighters law enforcement, highway patrol, california national guard
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medical and health and volunteers have been committed here. the response has been enormous and the over all recovery will be enormous as well. we'ring together with local authorities, we're going to open up a local assistance center here in the next couple of days which will allow individuals impacted by this event to come in and actually right now, individuals who have been impacted can register for disaster assistance through fima, you'll be getting that number shortly. we're going to continue to work with our local partners in setting up a plan for the recovery process, this is an issue where it is a marathon, not a sprint but it is something we're going to work together to rebuild and make it better. with that we have a few folks that will come and give you a
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briefing today, let me start off by introducing the department of forestry, the cal fire. thank you, mark, good morning. so we continue to have dry weather conditions critical fire weather ayous california well into the next several days for the next week. while with the winds are subsiding for the most part, particularly southern california tonight and into tomorrow morning vegetation is critically dry. we'll still have condition that is will produce new and potentially damaging fires. we're not keeping our eye off this ball at all. i know there is some rain in the forecast, i think we'll worry about that when it comes. focus on maintaining the pace for the rhythm of this fire fight to ensure all the resources that we need and that we have them in the right places. this morning there are 9,000
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firefighters spread across california engaged in the fire fight, numerous resources across the country as well as california, this morning is 135,000 acres and 35% contained we had a very good briefing, progress is being made obviously a very challenging fire but progress is being made and we have the utmost confidence in all the folks in this incident that are supporting it that they'll get the job done. southern california we continue to watch the woolsey fire in ventura and los angeles county, over 97,000 acres this morning but 47% contained. good progress being made there as well. we continue to move resources and put them in the places they need to be to get this job done. i want to reiterate we have a lot of work to do we'll continue to be here to get this job done until the job is over and we continue to work on transitioning into the recovery
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of all the other work that needs to get done. it is a challenge and this fire becoming the most destructive and the most deadly fire in the state history, our thoughts as the director said, is with everyone. we are all affected by this, we'll continue to engage and support you all in this effort. thank you. thank you, chief. now i'd like to introduce brock long, the administrative federal emergency management agency. >> thanks, mark. unfortunately everything that i've seen is truly devastating and heartbreaking one of the worse disasters i've seen in my career, hands down. about an hour ago, president trump spoke with both me and secretary zanki with the department of interior, this message is to take care of people that's exactly what we are here to do. a couple things i also want to
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point out is that the first responders in these towns the sheriffs, the police department, the firefighters, cal fire, these guys are real heroes. they've been doing some heroic work with the evacuations continuing to fight those fires and i cannot thank them enough. our goal at fima is to support governor brown with achieving his response and recovery goals. being on the ground yesterday in malibu as well as the santa monica mountains, here today i want to make sure we're bringing everything we can from federal resources to help californiaens overcome this time. right now, the focus is obviously life safety and life sustainment. that's why we are here to help provide support through martin delaguchi and his staff and the governments, we also want to make sure people understand if they've been impacted, individual assistance is turned
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on by the president signing the major declaration you can call 1800-621-fima, or visit disasterassistance.gov. the first phone call that every citizen should make is to their insurance provider, it is the first line of defense, if you are not episured or under ensured, feel free to reach out 1800-61-fima or disasterassistance.gov. we have several fima and employees on the ground to also start helping mayors and municipal governments for a recovery, this is going to be extremely difficult when you have total losses like paradise, you have to concentrate on helping communities bring back the infrastructure, without the infrastructure you can't build businesses and can't support those who have homes left or those with temporary homes.
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we're also working with mark and the state to understand what we call transitional shelter assistance to get people into hotels or rental properties that may be available but the most important thing that others can do that have not been impacted by this event is figure out ways to help. donate money to invoa, find out with nonprofits engaged here, volunteer organizations that are active in disaster if you want to find out how to help go to envoad.org or reach out to volunteer groups who are here on the grouped taking care of people. with that i'll turn it over to mark. thank you, brock, i appreciate you being here. okay now i'd like to introduce the governor of the state of california, governor jerry brown. this is so devastating, i don't have the words to
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describe it. it looks like a war zone, it is, it is the devastation that only fires of this kind can bring about. nobody is really expecting it but it happens. when it happens people pull together and i'm really impressed how much this community is pulling together. certainly first responders, firefighters, the sheriffs the police and everyone else like that but also neighbors and just people helping one another. this does bring us together, we can't avoid catastrophe, we can prepare for recover and we will. i will ask for an order to speed up recovery, cut red tape. other kind of laws that get in our way because we have to clean up debris, bind up our wounds, get with tomorrow.
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we're in a different kind of world. we know that. there are many elements to this, what causes these kinds of catastrophes where people live and how they live in the structures and the changing of the climate, the winds, the dryness and all the rest of it and continuing drought. we're in for a very difficult time this will never be the same but i can assure you that everyone in california is going to do their best, president trump did call me just a few minutes ago and he pledged the full resources of the federal government and i can tell you, california stands in the same position, we do have the funds and we will help out in every way we can realizing that we have issues in southern california and we'll have problems in the years to come. so i think now is the time for solidarity and understanding and let's learn how to do this
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together in the best way we can and get ready because we're always under some kind of threat. thank you. thank you, governor. i'd like to introduce the secretary of the u.s. department of interior, secretary ryan zinki, secretary. this is my fourth trip to california, unfortunately every trip this year has been forest fires and each trip i say this is the worse fire i've seen, now we are here today and this is the worse fire i have seen. this is from grewing up in montana, i've seen fires across the west, this is level devastation, certainly the community. i'd like to say thank you to our firefighters. we forget, especially local firefighters, if they are out in the frontline and their homes and families are in jeopardy yet they hold the line. every fire i've been to in
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california i can tell you a magnificent, heroic, courageous efforts by firefighters, law enforcement, first responders and thanks. as the governor there is a lot of reasons for a fire, now it is really not the time to point fingers. now it is the time to look at the infrastructure, make sure we have accountability of who is out there that's unaccounted for, deal with the families and make sure they have what they need, make sure that the department of interior works as we do, as cal fire and now i know ken and scott by name, i know the commanding general, it is a time for americans to stand together we all share the same grief and we're going to make sure within our power it is not going to happen again but we have to work together to do it. there is a lot of reasons why
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these catastrophic fires are happening but certainly we're very clever as americans and we need to pull together and do everything within our power to make sure these communities like whiskey town, like yosemite, like paradise, don't get devastated. it really is a devastating tragedy as the governor says, hard to describe, words can tell you, visit with the victims, the victim's families and see the smaller, great communities become really a charred image of what they once were. so thank you very much. we'll take questions if you have. i do ask that you identify who you are and where you work from and i'm sure the team of professionals behind me can answer a lot of the details.
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>> thanks. the major take away from this news conference, you heard from ryan zinki saying this is not the time to point fingers of course the president over the weekend had threatened funding to california but again, governor brown saying that they'll get full support from federal government. just minutes ago actually president trump contacted governor brown said this is a time for solidarity, live stream is going to continue online on kpix.com, check back here at 5 and 6.
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