we begin with a report from mina kim of pbs member station kqed. >> reporter: as the sun rose today,via parkinsons, surveyed the ash and burned metal that was once her home in santa rosa. >> nothing left. there's my steps coming right through my front patio. you can see my fireplace. it's just amazing. there's nothing left. you know what i did save? i saved our wedding rings. it's the one thing i grabbed. >> reporter: dozens of homes in parkinsons' coffey park neighborhood were swallowed by the fast approaching fires that broke out sunday night. and today, sonoma county officials ordered new evacuations. >> if you have a place to go, go. the less people here, the less we will have to evacuate. >> reporter: yesterday, winds from the south spread the flames north, but the winds shifted today and turned gusty again, pushing the fires south. in nearby napa county, officials ordered evacuations for nearly half of calistoga, a town of 5,000 people. firefighters there say they, too, are bracing for windy, low humidity conditions that fuel fires. >> we are expecting some extreme fire behavio

for the pbs newshour, i'm mina kim in napa county, california. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, the house passed a $36 billion relief bill for areas hit by hurricanes and wildfires. more than half the funding goes to the federal emergency management agency, including up to $5 billion to help puerto rico. >> we've got to do more to help puerto rico rebuild its own economy so it can be self sufficient, but at the moment-- this is why i'm going down there tomorrow-- there's a humanitarian crisis that has to be attended to. >> what we're talking about now is emergency relief, there's going to have to be relief right now, there's going to have to be recovery, that's a whole other, shall we say, budget. >> woodruff: the bill also earmarks about $16 billion to cover flood insurance claims in texas and florida. and, nearly $600 million will go toward fighting wildfires. president trump signed an executive order today aimed at promoting greater choice in health insurance plans. it lets small businesses form associations to offer scaled- back plans at lower costs. they'd be exempt from ob