veronica mccomb's son says that awful them basically converged on his san jose home when they found out that she had passed away on monday. as firefighters struggle to get a handle on the wine country fires and high winds prompt more evacuations jeremy coyle says his mother veronica would have been one of the people volunteering to help evacuees. >> she was the first person to -- whether it was within the community or within the family offer her assistance to those in need. >> reporter: 67-year-old veronica mccombs died alone in her santa rosa home the first night of the fires. her home was the site of countless gets toths over the years. it was even the wedding venue for his sister. her absence is especially difficult because her home was such a focal point to the whole family. >> she was the eldest, and all of her siblings and all of her cousins have reached out to us and supported us wonderfully. >> reporter: coyle says his mother loved caring for her new granddaughter and was enjoying retirement. she was recently able to travel to rome. the family has been grieving in private, and a

about them and especially with france's president emanuel mccomb with high flying plans for the european union to tighten the integrity of the european union there might be some trouble there with the new austrian government max hofmann joining us from vienna thank you. preparations are also under way for regional elections in the german state of noah saxony coming three weeks after national elections they're seen as an important voter sentiment as germany's parties try to form a government it's expected to be a tight race opinion polls puts the christian democrats of chancellor angela merkel slightly ahead of the social democrats close behind them the far right alternative for germany party is expected to secure just seven percent of the vote and that's despite coming in third at the national elections. after a failed coup attempt in turkey last year the number of tax seeking asylum here in germany has jumped many a feeling of rest and persecution by president. government now some asylum seekers are accusing germany's migration officials of leaking their personal information to turkish

the polluted mccomb is no long. a wild river but a great to threaten them pesticides is cool so doing a major network of dimes on the construction. we return to laos. with thousands of kilometers of waterways has the potential to offer electricity to much of southeast asia. and levon dams are already being built and a further ninety one some of the projects are in the planning phase. once again chinese companies are in charge. we say the lawman them tar one of the wildest rivers in laos. in less than a year this valley will be a giant like. at first up both dry the seams optimistic about repeating the official line about the benefits of developing the. plan. to cut him up to now. but after talking for a few minutes he begins to sound a more skeptical know. where we're heading what. good. it could. say. thank you but. we reach one of the few going to just that hasn't already been fully in fact i took. a traditional community where women work on the looms while the men fish and sail around the coast and. it's a peacef

tourism as european partners talk of future relations is premature even for french president emanuel mccomb who's been pushing for progress progress has been made on the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. but the issue of what britain will over the e.u. once it leaves and twenty nineteen is proving more difficult as unfortunately the market will mean we've made some progress but not enough to start the second phase of negotiations by the fall to begin also on the agenda in brussels is turkey chancellor merkel is vocal in her calls to and turkey's e.u. accession talks during last month's german election campaign but she's unlikely to repeat that call here since she can't count on support for that among her e.u. counterparts meanwhile the french president is seeking support for his proposals to reform the e.u. they include a two speed europe to accommodate both its stronger and weaker economies. waddle says your i know we want to take our own program forward with leaders of any member states based on our own ideas and initiatives if there is an increase in the issues of migration north korea

"the washington post" reporting today a major effort under way to protect republican leader mitch mccombmary fight next year. let's get the inside scoop from "the washington post" political report robert costa who co-wrote that article. jonathan swan, for atioos. and jonathan dkaypart, msnbc contributor. this is your story about trying to protect mcconnell and others of course in his orbit from steve bannon's primaries. >> what happened in alabama in that race for senator luther strange has been a wake-up call to the republican establishment. behind the scenes, they're really thinking hard about how do you go after bannon, how do you protect incumbents? and part of that process is targeting bannon personally, bringing up controversial element chs his pas of his past sure candidates know if they're going to embrace him, they're going to make him toxic. >> jonathan swan, what are the implications in terms of how the party's divided, how they reacted even after the senate lunches? >> well, i thought one of the shrewdist qo isist quotes was m used to work for jeb bush that said there's a war

talk talking con in a condescending way to the people or person present mccombs made a series of other remarks as well that have not served well in the past is a quick reminder that this morning. i will be absolutely determined. anyway not to. cynics not to extremists. to protest against his policies which. is necessary it is the response of the french people who are protecting their rights. price for over two years friday with brant crude selling for just over sixty dollars a barrel on friday it came as saudi arabia announced the production cut could be extended for another nine months to tackle the glut this kept prices a record lows of recent is the saudis move by president seen as a positive step in cooperation among the oil producing countries known as opec which meets in vienna next month. opec welcomes the clear guidance from the crown prince of saudi arabia on the need to achieve stable oil markets together with the statement expressed by president putin this clears the fog on the way to vienna on november thirtieth. the oversupply would force prices down a seam some all depend

michael john dornbach and veronica elizabeth mccombs, all confirmed to have perished. >> ten of the 17. seven not given due to notification of kin. confirmed two other victims through families. christina hanson and linda tunis from santa rosa. >> investigating whether downed power lines sparked the fires along with other causes. pg&e has been fine before for lack of maintenance on trees near lines that caused deadly wildfires. >> dan noyes with more. >> first acknowledge all the pg&e workers who do a great job keeping the lights on but telling me that downed lines, high winds and overgrown trees were deadly combination. power lines on meyers drive in santa rosa were failing. you see what, what is going through your mind? >> panicked at first. >> took this video from safety of his home. >> terrifying. trying to remain calm. >> caught ryan on the roof of his house clearing dry leaves with girlfriend. very close call. >> starting to be fall. dry leaves around. could have hit one of the house and just gone up. >> downed power lines and exploding transformers may have played a role in the f

michael john dornbach and veronica elizabeth mccombs, all confirmed to have perished. >> ten of the 17not given due to notification of kin. confirmed two other victims through families. christina hanson and linda tunis from santa rosa. >> investigating whether downed power lines sparked the fires along with other causes. pg&e has been fine before for lack of maintenance on trees near lines that caused deadly wildfires. >> dan noyes with more. >> first acknowledge all the pg&e workers who do a great job keeping the lights on but telling me that downed lines, high winds and overgrown trees were deadly combination. power lines on meyers drive in santa rosa were failing. you see what, what is going through your mind? >> panicked at first. >> took this video from safety of his home. >> terrifying. trying to remain calm. >> caught ryan on the roof of his house clearing dry leaves with girlfriend. very close call. >> starting to be fall. dry leaves around. could have hit one of the house and just gone up. >> downed power lines and exploding transformers may have played a role in the fires as

halbur, valerie lynn evans, carmen caldentey berriz, michael john dornbach and veronica elizabeth mccombs. we are told that most of the victims were found in their homes, one person was found by their car, at this point it's hard to say if there are any common conditions about how the victims died but the youngest person on the list is 57, the majority of the victims are elderly in their 70s and 80s, the sheriff explained how the victims were found. lets listen. >> they were found in targeting searches. people called and gave us enough information that we needed to go look for them. again, we had to be able to get into the spot. there were, in the last couple of days, there was enough evidence to go look at houses that we could not get near because the houses were too hot. that's how we handled that. these were done after we were september to a house to find someone. >> reporter: as far as the missing, there were 1100 people reported missing, 745 of those people were found safely. they are making great progress in terms of getting the list down, 400 people are not accounted for but the sh

valerie lynn evans, carmen caldentey berriz, michael john dornbach of calistoga and veronica elizabeth mccombs of santa rosa, we are told that most of the victims were found in their homes, one was found by their car, at this point a sheriff said that it's hard to say if there are any common things about how the victims died but we are told that the majority of those on the li are elderly, the youngest person is 57, the sheriff did not have much else to say about the search but it's sad for first responders, coming up at 10:00, what officials are asking people to do if they have reported someone missing. >>> thank you. >>> here's a look at some of the numbers on the fires, the largest continues to be the atlas fire burning in napa and solano counties burning 43,000- acres, the containment on that wept up to 7%. that's good news but the containment on all of these is largely unchanged since yesterday with many of them only three or 4% contained. under 10% in most cases, all of the fires getting slightly if not largely bigger and shelter locations.... you can call the sonoma county information h

. -- evans of santa rosa, and veronica elizabeth mccombs of santa rosa. the sheriff said identify something of these victims was very challenging, because in some cases, there wasn't much left of their remains. let's take a lesson. >> some of these remains are actually intact bodies, much easier to identify and get things from. some of them are merely ashes and bones, and we may never get truly confirmative identification on ashes. cremated, you can't get i.d. we were able to get identification in some of those cases by medical devices. a hip implant, for example, has serial number on it. so we actually did in that this case. two of the identifications were done by medical devices or implants. two were done through dental records. one was done through difficultinging tattoos. others were by fingerprints, so they were combined with information from family members. most of the victims were found in their homes. one was found by the car. the youngest person on the list was 57. most of those who died are elderly. the sheriff also reiterated this to us tonight

appear veronica liz meth mccombs, 67 years old from santa rosa. our hearts and thoughts go with friends and family. currently we have 1,100 missing persons reports. 745 of them roughly have been located safe. so we are whittling that list down. again communication issues. we are getting through. we still have 400 outstanding. we are going to continue to do what i mentioned this morning, target severance. we are working the missing person's list. go to specific houses, looking for people as part of the recovery search. as the area cools and is safer to go in we will do broader severance. i want to reiterate the importance of calling 7075653856. to, one report people missing. but, two, please report them not missing when you find them because we are using resources to find them. keep us informed with how it's working out. the names i read will be posted on facebook in 15 minutes, the information i gave you. that's what i have for this evening and happy to answer questions. [ inaudible question ]. >> i'm not sure if they were willie they were found i

from santa rosa veronica mccombs, carol collins-swasey, lin anderson powell, valeri lynn evans, and arthur tasmas grant. this morning about 400 people remain unaccounted for in sonoma county. firefighters are getting a brief respite after an influx of resources arrived. >> these are photos from the sebastopol fire department and as you can see, you can actually see it there but we do have photos. there they are. firefighters getting a break at a fire camp at the napa county expo. the crew just spent 36 straight hours fighting the atlas fire. at the camp they are assigned individual shelters. >> we have portable showers and a mobile kitchen unit. feed them on site so we're trying to get as much rest and calories as we possibly can. >> crews will wake up by 7:00 a.m. and then eat breakfast and get their briefing before heading back to the fire lines by 8:00. >>> we do have a new warning from napa police and you'll want to listen up if your home was spared. they are already issuing precautions for people who do still have their homes standing. they say when you return you really will not want

we have carmen berez, 75. 57-year-old michael. 67 veronica mccomb of santa rosa.ir family members have been notified and now their names have been made public. and we have the story of this person too earlier in the week. we should remind you. 28-year-old christina hanson died. her family letting you know they were working for her. she was in a wheelchair. it turns out she did fall victim to the fire. >> and also family members are confirming to kron 4 that 69- year-old linda died in the fire. she was at the journeys end mobile home park. and i am so sorry to say that they're just now sending in cadaver dogs to many of these neighborhoods in santa rosa, so we're unfortunately going to have terrible news as the kron 4 morning news continues today and through the weekend. we've been covering this more than any other station. if you have any other pictures, if you've lost family members and friends, we will share those with our viewers and i think it's a way to bring how horrible this is, to see the victims and put a face to a name, and our hearts go out to you if yo

from santa rosa veronica elizabeth mccombs, carol collins-swasey, lin anderson powell, valeri lynn evans and arthur as it man grant and his wife suiko grant. about 400 people remain unaccounted for in sonoma county. >>> firefighters in the north bay are getting rest after an influx of resources has just arrived. >> take a look at the photos of the sebastopol fire department getting some rest. a u.s. forest service crew spent 36 straight hours fighting the atlas fire. 36 hours. they are assigned individual shelters in which they can rest and recuperate. >> we have tents here, portable showers, a mobile kitchen unit, feed them on site, try to get them as much rest and calories as we possibly can. >> crews will wake up by 7:00 a.m. and then eat breakfast and get their briefing before heading back to the fire lines by 8:00. among the firefighters on the front lines 3,800 california inmates. the state department of corrections and rehabilitation says those with low security risk are assigned to 43 fire camps across the state now all volunteers helping cut containment lines. >>> and this morni

also 57 year old michael john dornbach and 67 year old veronica elizabeth mccombs. that's a list of names but we also have pictures. kron four is confirming that 28 year old christina hansen died when her apartment was burned. her family was looking for her and she has not able to get out. also the family of linda tunis reported q+wtthat their mother in the tubbs fire. >> yesterday and today will be the first full day that they can go in with cadaver dogs to look for more victims because the people, hundreds of people, are unaccounted for and friends and family are so concerned. they want them found or they want to know what happened to them. >> lets get you updated on the fires and the fire fighting efforts. this is the tubbs fire, it has impacted santa rosa and it's threatening calistoga, this is a large one, 35,000-acres in size, at this moment is 10% contained. we are expecting an update from napa and sonoma fire fighting officials in our 7:00 and 9:00 hours, hopefully the containment will go up. >> the rest of the fires are only one or 2% contained. this is th