rob stafford: attorney ken allen, however, sees it differently. ou look into somebody's eyes, and you expect some glimmer of humanity, some soul, something. he has nothing. he is a very evil person. rob stafford: in preparing to bring the phyllis barnes case to court, ken allen was able to question the runaway doctor in jail. ken: i saw a very sinister person, a very sinister person, and a person who is very capable of pretending he has some measure of remorse. but i could see he was not changed or remorseful at all. rob stafford: in march, 2011, more than six years after her death, the family of phyllis barnes finally got their chance to present their malpractice case against mark weinberger in a civil trial. weinberger elected not to attend. ken allen's case hinged on convincing the jury weinberger could have caught phyllis's cancer, had he given her a thorough examination. allen told the jurors that phyllis barnes, a two-pack-a-day smoker, had gone to see weinberger complaining of trouble breathing, a sore throat, and hoarseness. she'd even been

ken allen: he is a very evil person.

good evening, i'm allen martin. ken bastida has the night off. i'm elizabeth cook. the trouble spot tonight: the nuns fire.. which is burning behind a famous winery.. in napa county. kpix 5's joe vazquez begins our coverage in oakville tonight. joe? -- honoring the 38-year-old man for his service. gay of oakville says her community is filled with her break, nervously watching the fire. >> you feel comfortable, i wake up and i see flames again. >> all day, cal fire has been attacking the flames by air. officials have doug containment lines along the western edge and when the fire occasionally makes a run down the hills and jumps the containment line, helicopters moving with another water drop. this is an area dotted by some of the most famous wineries in the world including the robert mondavi winery. the flames do not appear to be endangering these wineries at this point. hellfire believes it is making progress as officials say the plan is to let the flames continue to march for the foul -- toward the valley. >> if it's too steep or the vegetation is too dense to put

. >> i'm allen martin. ken bastida has the night off. thousands of homes were destroyed by the deadliest series of wildfires california has ever seen. tonight we asked the feds, what are you going to do about the housing crisis? kpix 5's emily turner says fema admits it doesn't know. >> these are the faces of those who have been displaced, who have lost something or everything in the fire. >> i opened up my door, all of the sudden i saw the winds blowing and embers and branches flying in the flames. essentially we had just seconds to get out of the house. >> reporter: there are thousands of them and they came to this community meeting for answers. but where housing is concerned, there are few. before the fire, santa rosa had vacancy rates that were incredibly low. 10%, if not worse. now that the fire has happened, all these homes have been destroyed, how are you going to put them in temporary housing? >> that's the biggest question we're trying to deal with right now. >> reporter: the fires in santa rosa and sonoma county destroyed 6500

allen? >> reporter: i'm sorry, ken and liz. i lost the audio. i can't hear you. let me just tell you amid all this destruction there are a lot of stories of close calls. people see the orn angeout of sounds kind of cliche to say they were running for their lives, but they were indeed running for their lives. kpix5's jackie ward with a close call at one of the big hospitals here in santa rosa. jackie? >> reporter: allen, as kaiser was being evacuated early yesterday morning, it's important to remember that the people who were getting those patients to safety live in this community as well and they were fearful about what was happening to their homes, to their families, but they put those concerns aside for at least a little while while they served those who needed them and waited for the fire to happen. in a matter of 2 1/2 hours kaiser hospital went from being fully operational to completely empty. an effort like that required the entire staff to safely help their roughly 130 patients get out. >> it was an amazing, amazing experience to see how the heros in this

. >> reporter: kenny allen has known ken and jimmy for years. the couple killed over the weekend on a leisurely bike ride in dewey beach. >> very friendly. [ inaudible ]. we'd all get together and laugh and just have fun. >> reporter: they lived in this condo complex in northwest d.c. and spent time at their beach house they were avid bike riders. that's what they were doing in dewey beach saturday afternoon when a man driving an suv had a medical emergency and blacked out. he slammed into greg and jimmy as they were straddling their bikes near the famous starboard bar and restaurants. >> i can't fathom it that they're gone. >> reporter: the couple had just celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary. neighbors tell me that they had planned to take their honeymoon to hawaii sometime in the spring. friends describe chidik as friendly and outgoing. he worked as a government contractor. his husband jimmy was quiet, a hard working graphic designer and consultant. chidik had served on the condo board here for years. >> unfortunately i learned about

let's send it back out live to our colleague, allen martin, who is in calistoga, a city that has now almost completed a total evacuation. >>orit evacuated kenere's very few people here. you're seeing police cars, and calistoga fire department. all of these are emergency vehicles pretty much behind me. those are the only people who are left in town. the anxiety pretty high. the mandatory evacuation went between 2 and 3 this afternoon. pretty much everybody has heeded that warning, and they have gotten out. i'm told that in terms of total evacuations, about 25,000 people are out of their homes in the multicounty area. but i want to bring in my colleague, wilson walker. wilson, you were one of the first reporters up here when the fire broke out on sunday night, so you've been here three days. today, you went through sonoma county. >> this was pretty much a trip through sonoma county southbound, down 12 down to sonoma. it was strange. this was a space i'd gone through on monday. and i'm going back through the same area in the places that hadn't burned on monday, for a lot of folks were on fire today. it was like the fire came back to haunt them

allen, back to you. >> kristin, thanks so much. tonight now the economic toll is certainly starting to add up. insures estimate the damage could reach $6 billion. kennd liz it's not going to be a quick process either. besides being very expensive trying to find contractors. building materials you know the hurricanes in texas and in florida things are stressed right now. this is going to be a really tough rebuild. >> thank you. >> first responders got a standing ovation at a town hall meeting in sonoma county tonight. for all the work they've been doing. risking their lives in the front lines. the captain says with winds picking up tonight, firefighters face a new challenge. >> we've been extinguishing hot spots mopping up. in places that there's not so much active fire but in this wind and ember that established line could cause the fire to grow. it's really going to test the line and crews tonight are going to stay aware and stay vigilant. >> as the fire spread earlier this week the washington postreporting lake county was the only one that sent a mass cell phone alert to its residents. >>> i.c.e. is freezing its operations in the fire zone. immig

allen. here's another image of the fire crawling up the back of sonoma raceway. look at that. >> oh, gosh. >> that's by ken sh,man. he said he's taken it from his porch. there are so many fires we can not keep up here with what's going on. just to reiterate, on santa rosa, it's north of  coting town mall, exit steel lane. thanks, jan, for all that information. the wind has tailed off a bit. it's still -- you're still getting some decent gusts, but nothing like we saw at 4:00, when we had 40, 50 miles per hour gusts. you can take a look here at the atlas peak, 25, what? 58 degrees. humidity still low. that's a north wind. north at napa. north at american canyon. 65 north at port chicago. also want to mention, santa rosa has come down a little bit, north at 7. it was 25 a couple hours ago. another observation, napa airport is north at 17. there's fairfield to 37. oak also has a north wind. that's why you're getting the smell of the smoke. 50s on the temp, 6 0s for some. they have come down a little bit as that wind has tailed off. red flag warning continues until tomorrow morning at 12:00. by 11:00 this wi

allen is among the hardest hit, and evacuation orders were lifted today for residents. some found nothing left of their homes. >> tonight a community rallied to help the victims. a fundraiser just ended. >> reporter: ken and julie, bay marin community church hosted this fundraiser tonight to help the victims recover. tonight i met a family who is doing their best to move forward despite losing everything. >> i remember the first time we came and looked at this house and i thought oh my god to get to live here. >> reporter: the home sat atop a hill overlooking the sonoma valley. the 3,000 square foot home, a dream come true, destroyed in the wildfire. >> what makes this loss more devastating than just the loss of all of our family heirlooms and the place where they live, but they lost everything for my brother, and now they're having to start over completely. >> reporter: her 75-year-old parents and 41-year-old disabled brother lived here. they evacuated as the fire ripped through, grabbing important documents and medications. two weeks later is the first time they've been able to return, salvaging what they could. >> terrible. any little thing i can recognize takes on incredible meaning. >> reporter: