now at 11:00, wildfires roaring to life across california and one of them has already destroyed homes in the north bay. plus, you can see the smoke here at sunset, and it isn't coming from the bay area. the fire burning out of control tonight. plus, people jumping on a police cruiser. why south bay officers say a mob of people stopped them from helping someone who was hurt. and mayoral candidates

going head to head on public safety. their plans to keep san francisco safe and what they say the city is doing wrong. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> good evening, i'm devin fehely in for sara donchey. right now over a dozen fires are burning across california. one of them is right here in the bay area. it has already burned at least two homes while firefighters are scrambling to protect communities that were forced to evacuate. the so-called point fire started yesterday in northern sonoma county. it sparked in a rural area near lake sonoma near stewarts point scag spring road. whipping wind caused the flames to explode to over 1,000 acres in less than 24 hours. now this evening sonoma county declared a local state of emergency to allow for state and federal aid to flow in more quickly. at last check, this fire has burned at least two home, torched over 1,100 acres.

firefighters have boosted containment up to 20%. fire crews say tomorrow they plan to keep bolstering containment lines and conduct mop-up operations to keep the flames from burning out of control. one firefighter is in the hospital after a helicopter crew pulled off a tricky nighttime rescue. they managed to pull him to safety despite flying in smoky and treacherous terrain earlier this morning. luckily the sonoma sheriff's department says the officer has non-life-threatening injuries and was not burned. more on the point fire and how it's impacting local communities later in the show, but right now we're tracking a fire in clue is a ca lieu is a county. the wildfire smoke was visible across the bay area this evening. >> it was almost like a head fake, devin, because we were so focused on the point fire all day. and then right about 7:00 an entirely different overwhelming plume of smoke entered the sky. that's what

it looked like from san francisco. let me show you another time lapse. this is the time lapse that i have from the camera on mount diablo, and we'll go to that next time lapse now. and you can actually see how this smoke at 5:00 wasn't even in the sky. watch the clouds leave, and as soon as they leave, the smoke moves in. coming from a totally different direction. those were northeasterly winds coming from the sights valley fire on the west end of the sacramento valley. here's the best way to get a handle on that. this is right before sunset. there go the clouds. as they leave they're much higher, that's why they're moving in a different direction. as soon as they left, this huge plume of smoke moved in, and the way the winds were oriented, it directed it right over us. no doubt you saw this. anybody who looked at the sky between 7:00 and sunset no doubt was wondering, what is that? is that the point fire? and it wasn't. what did it do to air quality? if we go to that network of low-cost air quality centers which have a big array, there's a ton of them across

the bay, so you get a big picture view, wrote do see one area that has poor air quality. a little bit up in sonoma county. look at napa and fairfield. see that congregation of poor air, that smoke is coming from the point fire. that had gotten fulled into napa valley at the lower elevations and has drifted to fairfield. that's the only place that has bad air quality right now. it all comes back to the wind. we're going to visualize an important feature that the wind played in this today. you saw how the smoke was coming our way from the northeast. it was coming from up there coming our way. look what the wind's doing now. it switched. these are generally north to south winds that are moving off the coast, and this is color coded from green, fairly moderate, 20-mile-an-hour winds. that's mostly what this is. there's a little bit of good news here. the wind has shifted. in terms

of bringing in more smoke from the sights firebomb, we're starting to change the direction. and if we use the latest high resolution smoke forecast now, which already has a depiction on that fire, that's how good these models have gotten. there's your point source. watch what it does tomorrow. there's still smoke drifting off of it, but for the most part, it's going directly north to south because it's getting a push from the streamlines you can see on the map. going back to an onshore flow tomorrow. it won't get rid of all the smoke, but it's going to limit the amount that filters into the bay. it's a tricky forecast to say exactly how air quality will be tomorrow, but it probably won't be as bad as you might have thought by looking at the sky. more on this in a few minutes. >> thank you, darren. in just the past few hours, a brand new wildfire sparked up and exploded over 5,000 acres in calaveras county. it broke out near copper nop lis and in madisen keavy's report, you can hear exactly why firefighters just couldn't keep that fire from ballooning

in size. >> reporter: wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour, a problem for crews and what grew the arrow fire in just a few short hours. the main goal for crews cut off the head of this fire. >> and to figure out a game plan, once we started seeing it spread with the wind, we started packing. so we got a bunch of stuff together, and then the sheriff came and knocked on the doors and told us all to evacuate. >> reporter: retardant drops over highway 4 gave some evacuees a peace of mind that the flames they could see, the containment line, would prevent the fire from coming any closer. at one point we have visibility like this, and at another point there's thick black smoke. you were telling me what does it put into perspective for you? >> what's important in life, you know? i mean, we grabbed each other and the cat and a few other things and that's about it. you know, we weren't really that worried about all the things we have in our house

or anything. >> well, right now the largest fire burning in the state is in southern california. the so-called post fire. it's burned more than 15,000 acres in los angeles and ventura counties, and it's sitting at about 20% containment. firefighters are saying that they expect these flames to continue to move south due to strong winds from the north. they're using aircraft to try and stop the forward progress of that fire but are facing some challenges because of limited visibility from all of the smoke. here in the bay area, a man is accused of firebombing a uc berkeley police vehicle and carrying out three other arson attacks on campus this month alone. now, calfire says that 34-year-old casey gooden from oakland is being held in jail on $1 million bail. on the 1st of this month we reported on this police vehicle being lit on fire. now calfire says they have been investigated this along with several other arson fires at a construction site near the twinell annex building

and at the hall. in the south bay, san jose police officers association just released this video of a mob of people attacking a san jose police cruiser. on saturday evening near santana road, people started jumping on top of that police car trying to break out the windshield. now, police say that the officer actually tried to respond to a sideshow where a spectator had been hit by a car, but the mob of people prevented the cruiser from getting through. that sideshow happened at the intersection of winchester boulevard and ollen avenue. police posted a picture of this man saying he hit a pedestrian while driving in that sideshow. officers say that they arrested that 24-year-old suspect and towed his car. he was boked into jail for felony hit-and-run and reckless driving. further north in san francisco, police say they arrested 57 people in just one day in the tenderloin. police say during their operation last monday more than 40 people that

they took into custody already had warrants out for their arrest. and they seized narcotics including fentanyl, meth, and cocaine. staying in san francisco, the top five candidates in the city's race for mayor met tonight for the second debate of the election season. tonight's main topic of conversation, who has the best plan to curb crime in the city. lauren toms was there. >> reporter: five candidates hoping to secure the city's top spot debated in a second round monday evening. and the hot topic was their plans for public safety. political newcomer daniel lurie touted his recent experience riding along with members of sfpd, calling for more funding and increased staffing. >> we've seen it done well during a conference or when a foreign leader comes to town, our streets are safe, they look clean. so we know it's possible. but we need to get them the help that they need to do their job. we need more community safety cameras. we

need to be able to allow them to chase when it is safe. >> reporter: community policing was a common theme that several candidates pushed, including supervisors aaron peskin and safai. >> i've always said that public safety is a progressive value. it is one of the most important things that a government must provide. but it's not just about press releases, it's not about calls for bringing in the national guard. i'm a big believer in community policing. >> it's a real effective strategy for dealing with crime and the perception of crime and public safety is taking officers out of their cars and doing proactive community policing. >> reporter: two candidates on the debate stage have experience in room 200, the mayor's office, former interim mayor mark farrell and current mayor london breed. the pair sparred over ferrell's plans to increase funding and support for officer, while breed reminded the crowd about her

programs that serve as an alternative to policing. >> we need new leadership in our police department to grow our police department to fight our police department budget. i will do that as mayor. >> first of all, this is not the republican national convention where every answer to public safety is police. >> reporter: candidates spent the night stressing what they think isn't working in city hall. >> that bold leadership is missing right now in this city. >> our city's current approach to the drug crisis we have on the streets of san francisco is not working. >> the city hall insiders that are on the stage with me have built up a broken, ineffective, and corrupt city hall bureaucracy. >> reporter: while breed reminded the crowd what has worked in her six years in office. >> there's a lot of comments about what needs to be done, and the difference is i'm actually doing it. >> so i'm curious, you were in the audience today, obviously, a lot of arguments about what these folks would do if they were in the mayor's office.

did it seem like one or the other sort of had any breakthrough moments or was the most effective in sort of communicating to the crowd tonight? >> not just yet, devin. right now we're seeing a lot of arguments from all five candidates. this is one of the closest mayoral races the city has seen in decades really, and we're starting, especially tonight, to see some of that sparring shake out on the debate stage. this one was really different compared to last week. it was more of a town hall style. these candidates knew their audience. it was held by the democratic club of san francisco, and they were really speaking to those voters. but a question i get asked a lot covering this race is what is the difference between a lot of these candidates? they're all democrats, and they all want what's best for the city, so what's different about them? tonight we saw that shine a little bit more. especially between two of the more conservative leaning candidates, at least in terms of some of their public safety policies and some of their policies when it comes to the drug crisis in san francisco, that being mark farrell and

philanthropist daniel lurie. we saw mark farrell go hard about his plans to ax the current police chief and boost police staffing and funding and from daniel lurie tonight we heard that he would even -- he would float putting ankle monitors on convicted drug dealers, so that was really the main thing we saw shine tonight. it's starting to see a little more of that split between these candidates. >> thank you so much. they're going to have to show some difference between themselveses and the incumbent mayor. thank you for your time today. well, still ahead, while president biden was fundraising with hollywood celebrities a secret service agent got involved in a dangerous situation. and this wildfire started moving so fast an entire town was warned don't go home, just get out and do it fast. later in sports, san jose sharks are hardly ice cold. they unwrapped a new head coach today. and some tough words from a niners star receiver against his own team's management. brandon aiyuk update coming.

tonight we learned that a u.s. secret service agent was robbed at gunpoint while president biden was visiting los angeles for a fundraiser over the weekend. now, biden held the fundraiser with former president barack obama and was rubbing elbows with actors george clooney and julia roberts. the event brought in more than $30 million for the re-election campaign. 35 miles away, a u.s. secret service agent was accosted by someone in a residential neighborhood and had his bag stolen at gunpoint. it happened in the city of tucson, orange county. now, police say that the agent fired their gun, but they didn't know if anyone was shot. officers say that this car was spotted leaving the scene and that they did find some of the agent's stolen

belongings. we don't know if the agent was part of the biden or obama secret service detail. and developing now, this is how the skies look tonight over a new mexico village that just ordered all of its residents to evacuate. an exploding wildfire is burning dangerously close to ruidoso. it was an immediate, mandatory go evacuation for the entire village of about 7,700 people. a wildfire has consumed at least 4,900 acres on an apache reservation, and it was moving so fast that city leaders told residents not to gather up their belongings or protect their homes, simply to go now. let's go ahead and go to darren peck, who i know has been tracking all of the smoke that has been drifting from our wildfires drifting down into the bay area this evening. >> tracking the wildfire, devin. we are definitely at the mercy of the wind. and it's

about to do us two favors. first thing we're going to look at here as i bring the wind back on, just so we can track where it's -- what the current situation on the wind streams are. we looked at this a moment ago, but if you look at the direction once again, we've shifted. these are somewhat more onshore winds. when we were pulling in all that smoke from that fire late this afternoon, they were going offshore. so this is a good thing that's going to change. but there's one other thing that's going to change over the next few days. this onshore flow is really going to intensify, and it's going to bring in a lot more humidity into the bay. we got really dry air out there right now. that's the reason why we were under that red flag warning for much of the north bay. that was allowed to expire at 8:00 tonight. and by wednesday we're going to be out of fire weather conditions at least here at home in the bay. one more review, by the way, on that satellite image of us today, because it is so telling of where we are right now in this year for fire season. we were looking at the sights fire. see that plume of smoke coming our way. by the way, those are high

clouds which leave the scene, because they're much higher in the atmosphere the wind is flowing at a different direction around 30,000 feet than it is around 6,000 to 8,000 feet where this plume of smoke is. do you see the other one? that's the one we've been covering the for the fire in calaveras county right now. that one also took off. both up to 5,000 acres at last check, probably higher now. what you don't see is the smoke from the point fire. underneath that in sonoma county. this says so much about fire season, we are back to tracking these things now using high resolution satellite imagery to get a handle on the size of the fire. and that is just so dramatic from today from mount diablo. started right around 5:00. that's all coming from the sights fire. so here's what the wind will do. we used the virtual map to see what it's doing now. watch how it sloshes back and forth. we had our offshore winds today, watch tomorrow morning, onshore. look at the difference that does for the amount of humidity in the

air. this is today at 2:00 when we were at our low point. this is when we were in the red flag warning. and red flag warning has to go with high winds and low humidity. two of those together. and we definitely had both. but tomorrow watch the humidity increase just a bit. it was subtle, but did you see it? if you missed that, wait until you see wednesday, it really goes up. same time of day. so you can use that as your base to see how each day differs. it's going to be a lot more humidity filtering in here. by the time we get to wednesday. wednesday, by the way, as a result of that, is also going to be the coolest day in the seven-day forecast. we're going to see a little bit of the marine layer come back in wednesday and thursday. a little more classic for the june gloom and the temperatures will come down. you see it here for our inland microclimate. coolest day is wednesday. thursday's pretty close. but it's a short lived onshore resurgence, because as we get towards the weekend, we're going right back to heat. and we can go the same thing now for our microclimates for the bay. you see the same trend play out. a nice little surge of the marine layer midweek. we

warm up by the weekend. devin, back to you. >> thank you, darren. in the south bay, a latin house music festival was apparently a big hit this weekend in downtown san jose . organizer of san jose foods says over 5,000 people partied at the seven-hour festival saturday at the discovery meadow park, and organizers say this is really just the start. they're planning to hold a music festival series. vern? >> all right, straight ahead in sports, a global life franchise sits on the nba throne for the 18th time. and the giants clutch hitting can carry

san francisco's been through tough times. london breed led us through the pandemic, declaring an emergency before anyone else, saving thousands of lives. from growing up in the western addition housing projects to becoming mayor, london has never given up on the city that raised her. london is getting people off the streets and into care. london never gave up on me. i found a home, and my life is on the right track. london made it super easy for me to open my small business, by cutting city fees. and she's reinventing downtown to make our city vibrant again. she's building 82,000 new homes and helping first time homebuyers, just like us. and london's hiring hundreds of police officers, and arresting drug dealers. san francisco has been through difficult times, but our hard work is paying off. working together, we're building a better future for the city we all love.

ad paid for by re-elect mayor london breed 2024. financial disclosures are available at sfethics.org. all right, vern, so we're almost at the middle point, the midpoint of the baseball season. giants are kind of trying to claw their way back in. >> like a horse race, they're just kind of drafting the horses in front of them. just stay in there through august and then try and make a move if you can. count them out. you better not. the way the giants have got it rolling, plenty of

late inning power at the intersection of clark and addison or waveland and jeff field, that's wrigley field, home of the cubs. watch what happens when they tested the arm of mike yastrzemski. run on him? base runners took a gamble, and yas threw a dart in time for a double play. hicks pitched five shutout innings. great defense. seventh inning blast from elliot ramos would tie this game up at 2-2. the giants, hey, you know what, late inning flair, you think it's over, it's not over. all right, so the giants had two on, they were down two in the ninth, and then estrada boom time. that's a deep shot. a three-run hammer. and the giants with a record of 36-37 won the game 7-6. what a comeback. all right, nba finals. game five. celtics jayson tatum poised to close out dallas at home with a 3-1 series lead.

check this out. sometimes you're lucky and good. payton pritchard, good as it goes. boom. half-court buzzer beater put them up 21 at the half. and with the series on the line, jayson tatum made some noise scoring 31 points. got a friendly bounce there. the celtics with series mvp, cal bears jaylen brown here won it 106-88, first title since 2008. and a record 18th championship in franchise history. all right, to the national hockey league and the sharks. nice shot of the arm -- and they introduced its new head coach. matt lively was there in san jose. >> reporter: the san jose sharks introduced ryan as their 11th head coach in franchise history on sunday marking a new era for the team after one of their worst seasons in history. >> we need some new life. we need some energy. we need some

positivity, and i'm excited to be part of it. >> reporter: the youngest head coach in the league, he's familiar with this young roster, serving as an assistant for the last two years. >> we need to take it one day at a time and forget about the past. let that hurt and fuel us to be better in the future. >> reporter: his coaching journey began in the ncaa division three ranks, then many years in the minors. >> the way i got here, it's probably a little bit different than some people. i started in the ahl not making money, i needed some support. i thank my mom and dad, my lovely wife and beautiful wife caroline, we've been there together since the small, freezing cold rink in milton, massachusetts. she'd sit with a hot chocolate and try to stay warm. here we are in the national hockey league, it's a dream come true with you by my side. >> reporter: he did hold off on telling us the strategies he'll be implementing, after all, he's a massachusetts native and calls himself a bill belichick guy. vern, back to you. >> all right there, matt, hey, congratulations coach. to the nfl, if the 49ers

and brandon aiyuk were close to a new contract, it's a funny way of showing it. aiyuk has been cryptic on social media the last few months, and today had a facetime call with commanders quarterback jayden daniels. >> they said they don't want me back. >> oh [ bleep ] >> i swear. >> my boy. >> the plot thickened after aiyuk skipped the team's mandatory mini camp earlier this month. devin, can you imagine in our business if we were fooling around with the management like that. they'd laugh and go, there's the door. >> but you know, the first red flag was the, you know, remove all the 49ers stuff from social media. and it's just kind of gotten worse. >> yeah, it's like a thing now. you know, you unfollow your team, get a deal, and then follow them again. >> all right, well fingers crossed that, you know, they can finally get past it and get something done. all right,

thank you, vern. >> we'll see. the latest tonight in the battle to protect bay area communities from a wildfire that has already burned several homes and forced people to evacuate. we talk to

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tonight we have been tracking a wildfire that's burning in northern sonoma county that's prompted county leaders to declare a local state of emergency. the point fire has torched over 1,100 acres in a rural area near lake sonoma. it exploded over 24 hours in windy conditions and fire crews have upped containment to about 20%. their biggest priority now is holding those fire lines and the fire has already consumed two homes. and it's triggering evacuations, but our wilson walker talked to a man who decided to stay behind and

protect his property. . >> through our chief, marshall tuberville, we've done so much preparation, and the firefighters coming up here felt pretty confident that they could hold the fire to mountain view ranch road, and they did. >> reporter: when the evacuation order came, fred peterson stayed behind to watch firefighters stop the flames just across the street from his house. >> this is the fire line, but there's unburned between us and the fire. >> reporter: so we spent the day doing his own patrolling along the fire line, keeping evacuated neighbors informed of what was going on, and even helping mark water sources in case they were needed by fire crews. >> but yeah, it's gotten, sadly, too much part of the routine. >> the fire is basically just right over this ridge. it came down off of bradford mountain. >> reporter: just down the hill from the fire break, they made it back to the family winery with the power still out, they had no choice but to come back

to get the generator on. >> if the barrels get up to, say, 80 degrees, barnyard kinds of characters, so it's real important to store the wine and keep it cool all the time. >> that's a big thing is to tie those lines together, strengthen them to reinforce. >> reporter: calfire spent the day trying to get better containment around this fire hitting hot spots that popped up along the valley. the first major fire up here in about four years now. >> well, so this is our biggest fire already since 2020 for the north bay area. we -- the last couple years we've had mild fire seasons. >> reporter: worth noting the 2020 fire, the wall bridge fire, burned in almost the exact same area, threatening the very same homes and vineyards around the dry creek valley. >> yeah, it looks like the -- this fire came right along the burn scar of the last fire. >> reporter: so after several years of relative calm in this

area, fire has returned with a sudden reminder that two good rainy seasons do not eliminate the threat. >> gazebo, the pink sugar shack. >> we are closely following the path of that north bay wildfire and the battle to increase containment in dry and windy conditions. you can head to our website, kpix.com, for the latest updates on the point fire and other fires that are burning across california. well, thanks so much for watching tonight. the late show with stephen colbert is next. and the news continues streaming on cbs news bay area. thanks for joining us, good night. >> trump challenged biden to a cognitive test but got his white house doctor's name wrong while doing it. take a listen. >> i think you should take a cognitive test, like i did. i took a cognitive test and i