what are you seeing this morning, anser? >> reporter: yeah, there has been a big difference from the past 24 hours. the heat is less intense, less chaotic. yesterday, 30 feet flames threatening the city. there are still mandatory evacuations. the damage has been done. this is one of the homes that caught fire yesterday. several homes, in fact, caught fire. you can see some of the smoldering smoke behind it, you can see a tractor, what used to be a car and behind that, obviously, what used to be a house. let's show video from yesterday morning. this is saturday morning around 4:00 a.m. when this entire neighborhood was evacuated and this house fully engulfed in flames. the county issued 500 mandatory evacuation orders for this area. somehow, this is the only house that caught fire on this street. just another reminder of how erratic and unpredictable this fire has been. i spoke with fire officials a short while ago. there has been significant progress made over the past 24 hours. firefighters continue to monitor hot spots. bu

anser just off of i-80, ridge field where he showed that moving over the road. here is green valley road, closed to traffic flow, they are three miles away from i-80, yesterday it was closer to the freeway and that caused traffic control issues. big kids were being allowed to come off i-50 which is normally not involved. this morning i got confirmation that as the lanes cleared up i-80 they are no longer allowed through oakland which is typically the case in the morning. the oakland approach and coming out of lafayette and walnut creek interchange, the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. for that portion of your commute outside of the north bay moving just fine, we will give you the big view of the traffic sent torse. hayward slowing across the san mateo bridge but all of these areas your visibility is okay as far as seeing the road but that haze will be prominent as the daylight comes up and smoke we're talking about smoke issues for around the bay area as well. track us for all aspects all areas of the bay. we will continue to monitor traffic through the nort

let's go to anser hassan in sonoma. >> reporter: good morning, guys. what a difference from the last 24 hours. mandatory curfew is still in place, power is still shut off and people not allowed to come home. the fire has left its mark. let's show you this house. this home has been burned. you can see the burned out car, the tractor, this may have been the garage. behind it, the house. now, i want to show you video from yesterday of this house, fully engulfed in flames. this saturday morning around 4:00 a.m. when this entire neighborhood was evacuated. they had mandatory evacuations in residents, this house being one of them. i spoke with fire officials. they say significant progress has been made containing the lines over the past 24 hours. firefighters continue to monitor hot spots. now, the fight to contain the fire is far from over. i want to show you new numbers just released overnight. since last monday, when the fires began, aircraft across the state dropped over 2 million gallons of retardant to help firefighters on the ground. many of the tanke

anser hassan, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. you mentioned the power lines.ht now, more than 100,000 customers are without power in sonoma and napa county. pg&e can't start to get it restored because the fire that is are burning. they have started staging crews. that way when things clear, they can get to some of the problems quickly, once firefighters give them the green light. >> pete suratos is in solano county. what have you been able to learn this morning? >> reporter: good morning to you, marcus. we are in front of the office of emergency services for solano county in fairfield. i took a peek inside. there's a number of officials on the law enforcement side as well as officials getting ready for the meeting. they are going to game play what they are going to do for folks in solano county. folks are affected by the fire taking place in napa county. we'll show the video from the top of the show. we were on green valley road, quite a ways away from the mountain area. the orange glow you are seeing is a concern. that's where the fire is, on the border of na

anser, what are you seeing? >> reporter: yeah, these winds making this a very unpredictable situation. i'm being told this is called all hands on deck. all fire crews have been direct to this area. i spoke to police a short while ago. they said 20 to 30-foot flames just half a mile from downtown sonoma. mandatory evacuation orders are in place. right now we're at napa and east 8th street, a residential area. fire crews staging here. this neighborhood, as i said, under mandatory evacuation. now this particular area is called sonoma valley. this is a rural area with about 30 to 50 homes. there are wineries up the hill. right now, crews are on the ground. we hear planes up in the air. earlier, deputies went door to door, telling people to get out. all week, we've been reporting firefighters and first responders saying what's making these wildfires so difficult is how the fire keeps jumping around and the wind pushing the fires in different directions. it seems that the wind shifts have been picking up and the speed

in santa rosa, anser hassan, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. very important to pay attention to those power lines that are down. in fact, power is out for a lot of people. more than 100,000 customers without it in sonoma and napa counties. pg&e can't start to get power restored to the area because the fires are still burning. officials say they started staging crews in the north bay to get to the problems quickly once firefighters give them the all clear. >> there's also multiple lines. firefighters let the flames reach the silverado road letting the roadblock the flames. here is how a man saved his home. >> didn't have power, so i had to hook a tractor up to the generator and rewire the house so i had water up there. i was able to save the house, but we lost the tank house. >> silverado trail has several wineries. we know the estate in napa has been destroyed. paradise ridge winery in santa rosa has also been destroyed. more of the damage with the fires still raging. it's too soon to tell the damage to the multiple billion dollar wine industry

anser hassan joins us live from fairfield right now. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. good morning, laura. i spoke with fairfield police just a short while ago, they say the good news is that the fire has not reached the city limits and they say the wind has actually been pushing the fire in the opposite direction so that may help, but the fire, as you can see above me, is about three miles away. that you are looking at right now is the fire line. this is the east ridge green valley area. a voluntary evacuation order was issued for this area and all residents on the west side of interstate 80 are advised to be prepared to evacuate. now, as of 1:00 a.m. this is what the atlas fire looked like, this is a tweet from one of our viewers in fairfield, it was taken from mt. howell. residents in the ranch chose solano neighborhood are under an evacuation right now, but they are encouraging everyone to pack a bag and be ready to leave on short notice. people have found shelter at one of the three evacuations en is terse in fairfield, one of them is a solano community center. so

one of our crews out there, anser hassan, he saw that with his own eyes, and anser, you've been out there and how are things looking now? it seems like it's changing. >> reporter: marcus, kira, good morning. it definitely is changing as daybreak happens, we're getting a much better sense of what's happening out here. earlier, about an hour ago, this was a staging area. fire crews were out here. all crews have been sent out to fight this fire. if you look there, that's the fire line. earlier it was an orange glow. then it became bright red. now smoke. what that means, fire crews are making progress on the front lines. this is east macarthur street at 8th street in sonoma. we are less than half a mile from downtown sonoma. mandatory evacuation orders are in place in this neighborhood. the power has also been cut as the fire came very close to this neighborhood. one of the big issues as we've been talking about, the wind. fire crews say the uptick in the wind not only pushes the fire along but employees these embers and ashes through the air that can spark hot spots and we have seen the fire

anser hassan has details on the desperate search under way and reaction from the community. >> reporter: it may be a long time before anyone can hold this 2-year-old again. >> these are all my kids in this neighborhood. >> reporter: neighbors like jimmy lee are struggling to come to terms with the 2-year-old's can't. >> devastated. >> reporter: late sunday evening, the 2-year-old was flung from his stoller in a hit and run on turner parkway. vallejo police identified the vehicle from surveillance video. an early 2000 acura tl. >> these people speed up and down this street. they have no idea about, you know, the consequences. >> reporter: neighbors say this is a dangerous street with two crosswalks within a one-mile stretch of road. they plan to pressure the city to do more to address safety. >> i was thinking something from here on would happen. >> reporter: anser hassan, "today in the bay." >>> coming up on "today in the bay," the break up at sears. the reason the stores won't be selling whirlpool appliances anymore. >>> snap chat is struggling to sell the spectacles. the number of gla

. >> anser hassan is live in santa rosa. anser, face masks are in demand for a lot of people in that area. >> reporter: yeah, as the smoke intensifies, so has the haze. we have seen people in the north bay wearing these types of masks. health officials say it will be much more important over the next 24 hours as the winds move south to the san francisco area and the east bay, creating dangerous breathing conditions. all of us need to be wearing these types of masks today. the bay area air quality management says if you have a face mask, you need to wear it today, especially children and the elderly. health officials say it's best to use face masks that look like this one, one with a particulate res pictu respirator. that includes bacteria and other viruses. the valve reduces heat build up. they cost $10 to $25. as the red flags warnings move to other parts of the bay area, smoke from the wildfires is expected to get worse. we have seen how the fire impacted san francisco, so health officials are warning everyone to wear thes

anser hassan has a look at how we got to this point. >> reporter: emotions will be high in the murder trial of kate steilee. >> it's going to be the victims family that wanlts justice and are stilooking at how this happened. >> reporter: he was deported five times. the pleasanton woman was used by the trump campaign. >> talking about crime. you saw what happened with the young lady in san francisco. >> reporter: the defense team is likely to argue the shooting was an accident and evidence the bullet ricocheted before killing her. >> they do not negate a second degree murder. defense is going to have a hard time. >> reporter: an issue is the weapon. he says he found the weapon at a nearby bench. defense lawyers will say the gun has a history of misfiring. the prosecution could argue, so what? >> regardless of whether the gun was stolen, it was fired. >> the prosecution cannot prove premeditation. >> they have to show his conduct caused that harm. that is going to be somewhat difficult with the evidence we have heard so far. >> reporter: anser hassan, "today in the bay." >> we will cove

anser. the coast guard has suspend the search for the owner of a boat found adrift near doran beach. greer was last heard from last night. his truck and boat trailer both found in the parking lot. the search for greer will resume tomorrow. >> scary moments. a toddler locked his baby sister in a gun safe. the fire department tweeted a 3-year-old boy locked his 18 month old sister in the gun safe here accidentally. they say the nanny was preoccupied when the boy shut the door of the gun safe. there were no guns inside and they got the girl out safely. >>> congress is set to take action tomorrow to give puerto rico much needed help. they gave hurricane relief package for $36 billion. the package would infuse cash and keep the federal flood insurance program from running out of money in order to play claims. >>> the nearest sign of any rain is some 1,200 miles away. i'll talk more about this pattern, why so hot in october and where we could have some record setting 90s at 11:20 tonight. >>> were

live in santa rosa, anser hassan, "today in the bay." >> good.e want to help as many people as we can. a lot of people are wondering how they can help victims of the fire. we have a link on our website with ideas. visit www.nbcbayarea.com. the link is right under the top story box. >>> as we have seen throughout the week, the air quality has been bad with the smoke moving into the bay area. through the day, the wind pushes that smoke elsewhere into the south bay as well as the east bay and the peninsula. dangerous air quality here because of all the things that are burning in those wildfires and that will be a major concern, not only for today, but the next couple of days. you should limit your outdoor exposure, turn the air on recirculate and wear a breathing mask. if you have symptoms, time to visit your doctor. we'll talk more about this and when that smoke will be moving into the bay area. that's coming up in a few minutes. mike has an update on the north bay. >> keep the cars out of the area if you are not in the area for emergency purposes.

reporting live, anser hassan, nbc bay area news. >> all right. thank you, anser. >>> now safeway san francisco turned into a crime scene overnight. an employee stabbed outside of the grocery store in the quiet richmond district. we brought you this story as breaking news on "today in the bay." pete suratos has more on the scene. >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you guys back in the newsroom. and the information that we're getting this morning from san francisco police is that this all started with the suspect shop lifted inside of this safeway in the richmond district. that leading to an altercation with a store clerk, stepping in trying to do the right thing, but eventually gets stabbed in the process. we have video of sfpd on the scene. they were processing the scene after it took place roughly around 12:30 a.m. we're talking about the safeway in the richmond district at 7th avenue and cabrillo. according to sfpd, they say the suspect got into this physical altercation with the clerk and in the process the suspect's dog bites the clerk in sev

anser. >> reporter: so many come to the post office get the mail and head home.or the fire victims it's their paycheck, medications, care packages things they need. it's also the first step in getting life back on track. at aej 72 judy is starting all over. >> all of our building, house, big adobe shop, barns, are just ash. like, nothing. >> reporter: nothing left on the 25 acre farm in kenwood. she and her partner escaped after a neighbor called warning them the property was on fire. 15 minutes was all she had to grab what was at hand and get out. >> the photograph albums, two pairs of underwear what i'm wearing. and that was it. >> she came to petaluma to purchase an rv as a temporary home. but she came to the petaluma post office as another step in getting life back on rack. >> property tax, the tax bill. >> there were bills but not the care package expecting from from her family process another minor setback. but she says the fire may have taken her home but not her fighting spirit. >> to me it's more like okay this wasn't what i was planning to do at age 72,

anser hassan is live with the efforts police are taking to stop the folks trying to take advantage of folks who lost almost everything. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, kris. sheriff officials say at least five people have been arrested for allegedly trying to steal from people. it may be hard to see, but these neighborhoods are completely evacuated, making the homes easy targets. one of the arrests was of this man, morgan, he's seen stealing from a car in an evacuated area. sheriff's officials say one resident saw him stealing and called 911. another person followed him to the park, confronted him and waited for deputies to arrive. when deputies did a search of his vehicle, they found some of the stolen items, which you are looking at now, that were located in his car. stuff was stolen from a local vineyard and a safety device stolen from firefighters. he was arrested for looting, possession of stolen property and violation of probation. police and law enforcement have been called in from around the state to patrol the neighborhoods, which are under curfew. the city police, helping o

reporting live in santa rosa, anser hassan, "today in the bay." >> 6:36.unty, people are living near the silverado resort can come home t. atlas peak fires destroyed others nearby. we were there as some of those evacuees returned. >> very thankful we have a house. we feel blessed. so, really hard when your neighbors are going through such a hard time. >> the people we spoke with say they won't try to come back until the power is on and smoke damage can be addressed. there's no time line for that. people tell us they have concerned about security. >>> happening today, leaders will join service representatives for another update on the fires burning across sonoma valley. it will cover the latest on evacuations. also, the resources available for evacuees and victims of the fire. tonight's town hall meeting is at 7:00 at the sonoma veterans memorial building. >>> we are seeing cooler temperatures and calm winds. because we have such light winds, it's keeping that dense smoke in the area. east bay peninsula down to the south bay remains unhealthy. we can expect

anser hassan, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. people have to take special precautions out there. >> we have kris sanchez in santa rosa this morning, dealing with the efforts going on there. good morning, kris. >> reporter: good morning to you. this is a neighborhood of pretty fancy homes here. these folks are under evacuation and it's no wonder why. you can see the hillside is still aglow behind me at wide oak road. we can hear the crackling of trees, see those embers there. the good news here is we are not seeing the kind of wind -- >> okay, we, unfortunately lost her live shot. it's breaking up. she was saying we aren't seeing the types of winds we were that were fueling the flames. there were reports of wind gusts up to 30,40,50 miles per hour at one point. we are in the red flag warning. kari hall has been watching the winds. yesterday, they eventually died down about noon yesterday. that really helped firefighters. the winds are what were carrying the embers and starting and igniting the fires. >> definitely relief for those

reporting live in fairfield, anser hassan, "today in the bay." >> coming up on "today in the bay," our breaking news coverage of the north bay wildfires continues, it's a situation changing by the minute, the evacuations and where those flames are headed next. ♪ ♪ the things that matter most happen one morning and one cup at a time. ad lib latest >>> and continuing coverage of the north bay wildfires. right now we know speaking with sonoma county spokesperson that the tufs fire there 10% contained. still many shelters opened and evacuations, mandatory evacuations, in order in many areas in the north bay. also schools, many of the districts deciding to close schools not just because of the fear of the fire, but air quality bad. some of that seen as far as san jose. >> even further south into morgan hill and the gilroy area as well. you know that smoke is not just a problem for schools. sfo had to cancel 80 flights yesterday because of low visibility. so far no delays or cancellations in oakland or san jose. >>> coming up on "today in the bay," we're going to go to robert, he is looking

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vallejo police the car was involved in a hit-and-run and hope photos will lead to the -- nbc bay area anser hassan is in vallejo with an update on those kid. >> reporter: it may be a long time before anyone will be able to hold this 2-year-old again. >> these are all of my kids in this neighborhood. >> reporter: neighbors like jimmy lee are still struggling to come to terms with the 2-year-old's current condition. >> i was devastated. i have tears. >> reporter: late sunday evening, the 2-year-old was flung from his stroller along with his 3-year-old sister in a hit-and-run on turner parkway near foothill drive. vallejo police identify the vehicle from these surveillance videos just released to nbc bay area. police described vehicle as an early 2000 acura tl. >> these people eat up and down the street. they have no idea about, you know, the consequences. >> reporter: neighbors say this is a dangerous street with only two crosswalks within a one-mile stretch of road. they plan to pressure the city to do more to address safety. >> i was just thinking, hopefully from something here on, somethin

nbc bay area's anser hasan is live from great america with the dramatic video. >> reporter: police say there's significantly more officers patrolling great america after those fights. now the park wouldn't comment on specifics of their security policy, but all customers have to go through security which includes having their bags searched and going through metal detectors, which police say should have gone off if somebody tried to go through with a taser. let me show you video from last night. the filmer saw multiple fights across the park. santa clara police confirm a taser was used when a person tried to steal a cell phone. he says he's upset great america's security staff, who are unarmed, didn't try to do more to control the crowds. >> they could have tried to separate them or carry them away or do a whistle -- >> reporter: despite saturday night's fights we saw thousands of people come out tonight for great america's halloween haunt which closes out the park's season, including many families and young kids. police say so far there have been no fights tonight. and police also say t

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