with that, i'll turn it over to cheer beerman if he has anything specific to napa county, and questions that may impact the area. >> good evening. just want to let you know we're here for you. we have a lot of, who to do. that fire grew to 50,000-acres today in 24 hours. those first 24 hours, we were -- we went around in fire engines and we couldn't put the perimeter of the fire out. lots of homes needed to be evacuated. lots of residents. there's a part on the road, people trying to flee and fire engines were doing everything they could evacuate in a rapidly developing fire. we keep using the words unprecedented. this is on the way to be the same thing. currently there's lots of -- approximately 700 homes consumed by fire, and those numbers could 0 go higher. just now starting to get enough resources in there to start evaluating things. we are at this point starting to -- fire is not rapidly developing like yesterday, also -- we're trying to get in there, do that perimeter control and slow the fire down. doing structure defense as necessary, and ensuring everyone is evacuated. so, we h

joe beerman is live over the scene in skyfox hd with the latest. good evening, joe. >> reporter: we're up with laguardia airport when we heard the pilot calling laguardia tower. his first transmission was aux air. i have a rough engine. he didn't declare an emergency at that point. moments later that emergency was declared when he said he had a complete engine failure by the alpine tower. he was southbound. he wanted priority treatment to try and get to teterboro airport, which would have been a real tough job with no engine. he crashed here at the cresskill swim club just off 3rd street in cresskill, came down in a soccer field and crashed into the trees. there were two people on board. we watched several of those two people being cut out of the airplane. the word from the ground is they have serious injuries, but it's nonlife-threatening. [000:59:55;00]

barry beerman is the napa county fire chief. >> we were having spot fires. we had hundreds and hundreds of homes instantly threatened more than 23,000 evacuated. governor brown declaring a state of emergency in two counties. >> reporter: many said this had a speed you haven't seen in years. >> unprecedented. >> reporter: the fire moving so quickly, scott kelly's home was destroyed in minutes. >> your house is gone? >> yeah. >> the chief was telling us the speed of this thing was impressive. >> going through 40 miles an hour. blew through everything like nothing. >> reporter: they took us through what's left of the town. >> some of the fire still smoldering. this is all you see, these burned out shells of cars all that remain. you can see the melted aluminum and melted metal here in the street. so many of the families gathered in calistoga, california, still holding their pets. and we go to find patrice conklin. >> we all about you. >> i heard. >> reporter: she got her children out and what little she could grab. >> reporter: your home is gone? >> my home is

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joe beerman is over the scene. what do we know? >> outbound upper level george washington bridge mid span, an suv pulling another vehicle just burst into flames. you can see we're here before the fire department. there was one brave port authority officer out there with a fire extinguisher. that won't do it. outbound upper level george washington bridge, we'll pull out, you can see all lanes closed with the emergency equipment equipment. fire trucks just arriving. expect delays. back to you. steve: always something. thanks. it was another wild ride on wall street. dari: big drop for the dow. alison morris in the house to talk to us about september's slow start and what it means for the rest of the month. steve: just about the only way to improve ice cream would be to keep it from melting. now scientists say they have found the answer. dari: and an adorable game of peekaboo goes viral. this is a baby gorilla and a little mmmmmm yoplait! oh! good news everybody! there is now 25% less sugar in yoplait original. say "adieu" to that sug

greg: we've got this on long island, a plane made what looks like a hard landing, jim beerman is over the scene right now. a small plane i think it might be a c plane. this is bay port, long island joe, what happened? >> hey, greg we first got word of a plane ditching in the great south bay a little after a 7, and pilot was not injured and good observation boy you, it is a c plane. the the pontoons have been rip ared off that as they dragged it to shore. there's a little bit of wing damage. where they are and where the airplane went down was south bay and fire island. suffolk can want marine units went out to rescue the pilot. then they hooked up a line, dragged that c plane on to the beach here at bay port we're hearing there were no injuries reported. no word if it was taken off landing or why he ditched here in the south bay. back to you guys. greg: looking at that will plane it looks like it was made from an erector set that is a very small plane. i don't know if it is a piper cub or c plane what -- but it looks delicate rosanna. rosanna: it does. we wish everybody well. meanwhile