>>want to bring you the latest on evacuation orders and warnings for folks in napa and sonoma counties can kron four's ken joining us now live from the newsroom with the latest on those areas impacted can they can grant let's take you to the master has started napa county this time because that's where a lot of this activity is taking place. >>that was not our map i will zoom in here and hopefully they'll catch up to me. the big problem right now is calistoga and highway 29 north of calistoga is closed. so there's no way to there you go this is downtown calistoga right here all of this blue area is a mandatory evacuation order and this boundary right here can dish different shade of blue to purple. this is the fire perimeter. so you can see the fire burning right at the edge of calistoga highway 29 going north up into middletown into lake county. that is all close so there's no way to get north from calistoga and then we saw dan kerman here right in downtown saint and you can see this part is under an evacuation warning the yellow area of seen lena. you cross a few streets and you're i

a couple notable items, not related to sonoma county but related to the incident as some of the evacuationorders today included portions of napa county and the closure of highway 29 between napa county and lake county. there is no current evacuations in lake county itself but that road was closed due to a fire activity impeding upon it, we also saw quite a bit of activity along the eastern flight of this fire toward the community of england. we will release our update within the next hour tonight, our damage inspection teams are out there and we anticipate the number of damage and destroy structure continuing to go up. the next update that we can expect from them and from the rest of the management team will be at 7:00 pm. with that, i will hand it back to you. >>> thank you, jonathan. indeed, 4 million acres for the state of california is a very ominous record. and that is pretty stifling. for more on the glass fire, we will go to cal fire division chief, ben nichols. >> thank you, this evening, as expected, the winds are starting to come into the area, unfortunately we started off a day

tonight sonoma county remains the only bay area county that remains in the widespread category. so meek sonoma currently ranks at one at i'm sorry sir over sonoma county currently has a positivity rate of 5.1%. >>joining us now with more on the city's latest reopening guidelines kron four's capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala ashley. >>yeah him the state health officials have spent the last several months coming up with these guidelines to reopen parts of the economy where crowds are typically massive. but state leaders say this reopening process will still move at a slow and steady pace. >>california's top health official tuesday released new reopening guidelines for theme parks allowing smaller parks to reopen at 25% capacity in counties that reached the state's orange moderate tier, larger parks like disneyland will remain shuttered indefinitely massive parks can't reopen until their counties reached the state's least restrictive tier yellow into minimal we don't out the crystal ball there is a prop forward we do not know but we do know how. >>and i think we'll continue put

today they committed to 14 more in sonoma county. yes, they're exhaust edifice kali and mentally. >> we get to see the bad side of things. people losing their homes and belongings. you get to see people out doing recovery of bodies and what not but that's just part of the fire service. >> reporter: this is toil. as we approach the peak of fire season they're four years into this not so new normal. it means weeks on the road and long shifts of 24 hours, sometimes more, in treacherous, uncomfortable conditions. >> most of our employees have been here since sunday night when the fire started or at least a couple hours after the fire started. >> reporter: this captain, santa rosa's firefighter of the year in 2014. we caught up with him during a short break just off highway 12 taking advantage of donated food. how many square meals a day are you getting? >> square? >> reporter: yeah. >> they are kind of round. >> they are working so hard and come back all dirty and tired and eyes are red. >> reporter: that is a point. every single firefig

it has taken a while but in recent weeks sonoma county has begun a really serious and comprehensive campaignigate the virus in the community. the county announced a plan earlier this month that would increase pop-up testing in latino communities and also pay a stipend of about $1200 to help replace the pay that will be missing work from isolating. also providing a dozen more hotels. >> living in crowded conditions, large households, that is a big factor in our case numbers. >> in our community, we are just wondering why it's taking so long. >> the organization on the move and other nonprofits are liaisons between the county and the latino community, letting people know about the importance of masking, distancing and that county help is available. >> this cause upon our system to find real change in how we are responding to our communities. by making sure the is not only equity but liberation. >> sonoma county will find out in another couple of weeks to see if these efforts are paying off to move out of the purple. >>> still ahead, prepare for collision. hurricane zeta turning deadly as it be

in sonoma county different county now different map this is napa county, the blue area is the mandatory evacuation area. and you can see saint helene and now is in an evacuation warning the city of saint helene are right here which is surrounded by mandatory evacuation zones. the big concern of course, pope valley and anglin in particular deer park. this is one right here the entire community bang when pacific union college all of this and see all these road closures that are in place around here this town has been evacuated and at also calistoga that is evacuated as well continue to be remain in place we're going to keep an eye on things because as we've talked about the wind is changing and that is going to change the fire behavior in these areas and that could affect new evacuations as the flames shift will keep you posted on that grant. i can appreciate it fire weary. residents of the santa cruz mountains meanwhile are being told to be ready to evacuate their homes. >>when the winter rains hopefully return as kron four's rob fladeboe reports now though much of the 85,000 acre czu li

this fire has destroyed more than 288 properties and napa and sonoma counties more than 26,000 other buildings remain threatened right now the cause of the fire still remains under investigations and there are new evacuations to tell you about they expanded this afternoon in napa county. here's a look now at the evacuation map. the new orders are for all areas of napa county north of the city of calistoga that's between the city limits and highway one 28 the sonoma county line and highway 29. all addresses of both sides of highway 29 between calistoga the city limits there and the lake county line and all the addresses an old lolly toll road. >>there's also some new evacuation warnings and orders in sonoma county to go through at this hour, here's a look at the evacuation map for there. a new evacuation order is in effect from whitehall lane to bella oaks that area also there's an evacuation warning from bella lane to oakville great. we have all these evacuation orders and warnings listed on our website kron 4 dot com. now governor gavin newsome toward wildfire damage today in napa co

. >> reporter: harvest time in sonoma county. we've already heard about the grapes and concerns about how smoke taint from fires will eliminate some vintages. but here is something new. >> that's ash right here. >> reporter: a great concern to eric pierson, who is part biologist, part grower, and a full-time ceo at spark. right now, his crop is coming in. >> this is not broccoli. >> no. >> reporter: doctor order. wedding crasher. or san fernando valley. >> cannabis. >> towering, flowering cannabis. acres of it. and in sonoma county, growers have concern about smoke taint as well. smoke taint from cannabis is different than grapes. with cannabis, it's a matter of esthetics. people don't want ash on their pot. and if those ashes happen to be polluted, they don't want that pot at all. >> there is organic smoke from a forest, which is what's on these plants because there's no structures nearby. but if you have a structure fire nearby, you could have all kinds of chemicals on your plant that you want to make sure you test for to make

across from highway 101 in santa rosa across sonoma county, across napa county. in the up here where we saw a major firefight going on. we can to calistoga which is very much a ghost town. make a bigger ghost town when they widen the evacuation here. that might go on for some time. we want to show you what i would like. it looked like this. and wildfire lore in science, where there is a smoke column, you will almost find a fire at the bottom of it. the current problem in napa county, lots of smoke column, some small, some enormous. the robert craig winery is only about two miles from the center of this town. here, full-court ground and air assault is underway. they drop bucket after bucket after bucket of water blaming brush. firefighters are concerned that this fire is going to get up and angling, it is going to have to come up through this valley. and they are doing everything humanly possible to keep that from happening. another major problem, this area has already burned once, but not hot spots are flaring up. and next to the hospital, almost an unlimited amo

plus go right now to the map so we can change just how widespread the fire is within napa and sonoma counties whereas can set roughly 70,000 people have been forced from their homes and napa county is where we'll start and the map here shows the mandatory evacuations. >>those zones are in blue and a warning is in yellow saint helene is part of that yellow of ak your way shun warning. here is an going up here in the blue mandatory evacuation zone and callous togo where theresa stasi owers reporting is also part of the mandatory evacuation, there's a very large area that extends further there to the north and also the concern is will those evacuation warnings or mandatory evacuations be pushed down further to the south. we'll switch over now to. sonoma county which is this area but we have to go to a different map in order show you that so here it is here's saint helene just for reference in deer park which is also part of that mandatory evacuation. the warning area is in yellow here and the mandatory evacuation is in red here santa rosa just for reference and so just to the east of santa rose

1:00 until friday at 6 pm, and along with that we are trying to of staff additional engines in sonoma county so we are pulling crews to see who is available. those crews will be for initial attack on any new fires within the county. the goal is to make sure that no new fires get started or are held to a very small acreage so we can concentrate on this fire, we got two days to get through the weather, once we get through that we can assess where we stand. >>> for the latest information about the glass fire and updates within the santa rosa limits, go to src.org,/gas fire -- glass fire. on instagram and twitter @santarosafire. >> thank you chief, for updates on the evacuation zones, let's start with sergeant juan valencia of the sheriff's office. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me again, as of last night, this morning, no new evacuation orders, we are not lifting orders or warnings, the weather is a big factor, we are working closely with cow fire, and our fire partners. calfire.. 50 deputies patrolling the areas that are under a order, keeping people from going in and diluti

sonoma county sheriff. our own office of recovery and resiliency, and, as you mentioned, unfortunately our county has far too much experience in dealing with disasters and wildfires like this. i think since 2007, we've had five major wildfires and it has consumed over about 300,000 acres unbelievably in our count, and it has destroyed about 8,280 structures. about 85% of them homes. >> obviously hundreds of homes were lost here in the glass fire, but when you look back at the disaster that unfolded in 2017 with the tubbs fire fire, the way it impacted sonoma county, you know, that fire obviously destroyed so many more homes. there was a greater loss of life in that case here. what do you -- when you step back and look at that, and compare those two fires that sonoma county went through here, do you believe that something changed this time around in terms of the response to have a better outcome for a lot more folks? >> well, think what's true and firefighters will tell you this, that every event is different

here in the sonoma county now the sonoma county sheriff is saying now that they've made this change they are warning there's going to be a lot of traffic in the area so they're asking people to drive safely their priority is to get everyone home and they want you want to stay home to still be ready to go at a moment's notice the fire. the behavior is still. acting up live right now in the newsroom, i'm justine waldman kron 4 news justine thank lectured bikes bikes. >>they still seem a little strange or too expensive and incentive 20's bay county is now offering to get more people to ride them plus the south bay slowing the spread of new covid-19 cases in the region, the key strategy that officials there are relying on >>the latest on the coronavirus now the south bay showing some success in reducing the number of new covid-19 cases and positive rate as kron four's rob fladeboe tells us the county's efforts to control the pandemic depend on what's called health equity benchmarks. >>like this one posted that story and king roads in east san jose remind residents that their community has be

the fire burning for a week and a half now destroyed at least 300 homes in sonoma county. one of the hard-hit neighborhoods, the skyhawk community in santa rosa in the virtual meeting many questions on insurance deputy commissioner tony cigna raleigh says the state's department of insurance is requesting expedited claims were asking insurance companies to prove why. >>25% of your contents coverage if you have a total loss up for right off the bat to give you money so you can get out of a shelter if you're a shelter, there are still companies that are selling its not a great situation and how to obtain insurance with the growing scarcity issues within the fire zones to matter if you re agent or broker can help you. >>and she got to find another agent or broker because there are options. >>you just have to you have to chase a lot more time in effort to find them then in the past and some of them are not great and there's no question that we have some work to do to restore insurance market california. >>the panel discuss recovery efforts and re population returning evacuees a

across from highway 101 in santa rosa across sonoma county, across napa county. in the up here where we saw a major firefight going on. we can to calistoga which is very much a ghost town. make a bigger ghost town when they widen the evacuation here. that might go on for some time. we

>>but sonoma county supervisor susan gorin hopes that will change not sure whether this the glass fire will qualify and will make that its monetary threshold. >>on damages. but between the county and sonoma county we're finding that the fire has been pretty devastating and so i'm hopeful that our evacuees and certainly the folks who lost homes or have damage to their homes could qualify for that fema assistance. >>for those anxious to see the damage to their homes but the supervisor in mayor ask that you wait to return until it's safe to do so when there's no longer a mandatory evacuation in your area. >>this local assistance center will be set up through saturday october 10th as for the folks that are now able to repopulate a separate services center has been set up at sequoyah elementary school at that center you can get goggles gloves and a safety suit to go to the damage in santa rosa taylor kron 4 news. >>the glass fire is also destroying multiple businesses at least 14 wineries have suffered some damage due to the fire, here's a list now the wineries that we know as of right now

but sonoma county supervisor susan gorin hopes that will change not sure whether this the glass fire will qualify and will make that its monetary threshold. >>on damages. but between the county and sonoma county we're finding that the fire has been pretty devastating and so i'm hopeful that our evacuees and certainly the folks who lost homes or have damage to their homes could qualify for that fema assistance. >>for those anxious to see the damage to their homes but the supervisor in mayor ask that you wait to return until it's safe to do so when there's no longer a mandatory evacuation in your area. >>this local assistance center will be set up through saturday october 10th as for the folks that are now able to repopulate a separate services center has been set up at sequoyah elementary school at that center you can get goggles gloves and a safety suit to go through the damage in santa rosa taylor bisacky kron 4 news a little bit of good news for firefighters that red flag warning that was issued yesterday lifted today in the north bay hills. >>and there could even be some rain heade

is just to give you a sense of how vast this area is but again not really any changes here in sonoma county because of the fire but as we look into napa county lot of attention now is focused up in england and the pope valley area here is the community angwin this entire area has been evacuated, this blue is mandatory as you can see a mandatory evacuation area and then pull valley is a little bit over here east of this this is pope valley up here this whole area up here not evacuation area so way to get the area to get away to get out of angwin but the fire is still burning on this edge right here. and so there's concern about the wind shifting and so on and then you see saint helene is surrounded by mandatory evacuation areas and it is an evacuation warning now in the heart of saint helena in calistoga as we mentioned also right here under a mandatory evacuation area so again. a large areas about 70,000 people in both counties when you add it all up who are now under evacuation orders and have been told to leave those areas, we'll keep an eye on all of this of course it all depends on the

>>sonoma county remains the only bay area county still in the most restrictive purple widespread here in the states ranking system in one way to get out of that here is more testing so they can contain the spread these pop-up testing sites are being held at different locations, they'll be in healdsburg on wednesday. we'll be back in different location in santa rosa. on thursday and in rohnert park on friday but they're going to repeat the times and locations from week to week so for example, they'll be back here at andy's unity park next tuesday and every tuesday after that for the immediate future we've posted a link of the schedule on our website kron 4 dot com. maureen kelly kron 4 news. >>this afternoon, the sonoma county board of supervisors is also considering the 16 million dollar package of public health strategies to curb the spread of the virus is passed it would offer gift cards to encourage testing and offer one time stipends of $1200 and hotel vouchers to infected residents to help them afford to stay home from work and safely isaly. on to our other top pj nice as power s

>>every day this week firefighters are fueling up local food throughout sonoma county, thanks to air all to rosa. it takes a village to do this this is not just me community members have donated more than $45,000 this week to erica police teaming up with restaurants in the north bay every day to serve breakfast and dinner to hundreds of first responders other so grateful to come down there so dirty and and they just looked like so sluggish and. >>they come every single one of them is just so gracious and so thankful for all that we're doing for and so then they start eating you can just see them like perk up again. it is tell that okay they're ready to go back out you know so these firefighters are eating warm local fresh meals, but they're also able to stock up on supplies like chapstick eye drops deodorant. >>and erica she's not alone out here she's partnered with another local company who was feeding these heroes right alongside her sunday night when this this all blew up again, you know we're looking they're like wow this is happening go against their peak again tips tried to tro

sitting on our air quality and there's a couple of good spots mostly around northern northern sonoma county and then up in the mendocino county aside from that though is port report conditions across the region not the day to be spending too much time outside use it as an excuse to stay inside take a little bit easier for your friday, hazy conditions will remain across the bay area as we continue to see wildfire smoke being funneled our direction not just from the glass complex but also from the august and north complexes they're still putting up smoke and that was pushed its direction or direction. yesterday by those northerly winds that you can see our that substantial this morning but certainly do still exist pushing in smoke from the north down a little bit further to the south now as for the august complex temperatures are relatively cool in the vicinity of it as you can see at least for right now winds are relatively calm least closer to the surface now in our upper elevations, still under red flag warnings you do see those upper elevation spots lit up in red on the map as that's wher

>>the fire destroyed more than 288 homes in napa and sonoma counties more than 26,000 other buildings remain threatened the cause of the fire remains under investigation. the glass fire destroyed a santa rosa couple's home and while some families don't want to rebuild in the north bay because of wildfire threats. >>this couple says they cannot imagine being anywhere else kron four's ella sogomonian reports. >>this is the first time that nick and kevin condit we're able to come back to see what was left of their santa rosa home. but unfortunately there wasn't much of anything that the flames didn't touch the place they called home and everything else inside was leveled by the glass fire after hurried out of there in the early morning hours on sunday. >>he's too to. if needed is here >>is the >>the couple had just minutes to get out as a wall of fire descended on their santa rosa home. kevin comforting nikki when she realized that all her chickens had perished too. >>it was like a part of me is gone. going to put the fire. everything we. you you are. then we made here. is go on. >>kevin

and i'm ken wayne county fire says the fire has now burned close to 59,000 acres in napa and sonoma counties it's 5% contained. the fire has destroyed 223 homes. more than 28 1000 structures remain threatened and while an exact cause could take months to determine one possible cause is reportedly electric fencing around remote vineyard. here's a point of origin. it has been nearly a week since it started, but the glass fires refusing to give firefighters a break chief meteorologist lawrence karnow tracking the dangerous fire weather conditions that are expected to last for the next few days or yeah, really just to the wind's going to keep switching directions here right now we're seeing a turn mainly out of the north and the winds. >>now after a day where they had calmed down now they are really beginning to pick up just was we had feared. and now we're looking at some pretty gusty winds in around an active fire, not what firefighters wanted to see your everybody lives in these locations so here the very latest wins. it is 19 miles per hour out of the northwest right there the po valley sail

solano amarin counties remain in the substantial tear labeled in red and sonoma is the only bay area county that remains in the widespread here which designated in purple. mayor london breed announced today that in san francisco indoor gyms can increase capacity to 25% starting october 27th. gyms are currently operating at just 10% capacity, however, cardio anaerobic exercises will still be prohibited indoors. even though the state has moved san francisco into the yellow minimal tear which would allow gyms to reopen at 50%. the city is choosing to only increase to 25% capacity for those tips and here's a look at what we can expect to reopen down the road starting november 3rd indoor pools and bowling alleys can reopen indoor dining can reopen at 50% capacity san francisco health officials say they have a goal to allow bars which are not serving food to reopen outdoors by mid november, another big story we're tracking tonight a high fire weather watch has prompted pg need to notify about 54,000 customers across 19 northern california counties of the 19 county 6 or here in the bay area,

latest update is that 58,000 acres have burned in napa and sonoma county and containment has improved slightly and it is now 5% compared to 2% last night but the damage assessment is much higher. they now say the number of homes and businesses destroyed has gone up to 419 and that number was just 150 last night. we are live with the latest there. >> reporter: we are in downtown calistoga where the entire city has been evacuated. people tell us they are nervous about the conditions and firefighters are working hard to get the upper hand while dealing with unfavorable conditions. and st. helena firefite a relentless attack against the glass fire in the face of a red flag warning. high heat and low humidity and wind and the warning started at 1:00 thursday afternoon and will last until 6:00 friday night. >> the structure protection and cutting lines, contingency lines and having a plan for the plan and a plan after the plan and aggressive firefighting. >> reporter: the firefight was in the air and on the ground and one focus was the small community of angwin, an area under a mandatory ev

plus west of the napa and sonoma county line we're going to keep track of all the latest here at on our website kron 4 dot com can. >>all right, thank you very much allan as she just mentioned the city of calistoga has been under evacuation since monday. kron four's gayle ong talked with the mayor chris canning in galle how is that city holding up tonight. >>well fire you can see it because of all the smoke, but it is still burning around that city. i'm here and the napa valley floor along highway one 28 near deer park road. you can just see the air quality is so bad earlier in the day it was really hot low humidity. the fire burning in steep rugged terrain. >>beyond those trees is the glass fire firefighters are keeping a close eye on diamond mountain road off highway one 28 in calistoga where the fire burned actively throughout the day threatening homes and vineyards the area filled with heavy timber and narrow roads water tenders are also on standby in case the fire jumps all of calistoga is roughly 5,000 residents were ordered to evacuate monday. we spoke to the city's mayor chris c

we also have counties in the north bay, sonoma, napa and portions of lake county. those customers are in the process of being shut off now. the shutoff is expected to take place between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. those customers will remain out of service all the way until friday when we expect weather conditions to improve and then the estimated time of restoration for that grouping is end of day friday for the majority of those customers that were impacted. the second cluster i want to talk about is in the blue. that's the southern sierra and portions of the south bay, santa cruz mountains, a portion in monterey, that group will also be shut off tonight. the shutoff time is a little bit later between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. that's when we are going to begin shutting that off and the reason for the difference in times, those northerly diablo winds that scott mentioned start up north and they come down the valley and in the foothills and in the mountains regions and by the time they come down into the bay area and the central part of that map, it's a few hours alert. so we want

>>now let's continue our team coverage and go to sonoma county. a map here showing exactly where kron four's reyna harvey is for us this morning. a last check she was in the near the skyhook community of santa rosa just off highway 12 there and sonoma highway several homes. we understand damaged in that brain a were you what are you seeing now. >>one at checkpoint right here that highway patrol has set up a lot i went well in the high life just a street or so over where we're seeing a lot of the damage show you right here. this is one of the checkpoints so law enforcement here is making sure that people are not able unless they are you know have some sort of. certification or on their workers in the area are they able to pass by this area. now further down highway 12 and we'll get that way in a moment, there's a lot of damage but i've seen several fire engines coming to this way we had a little bit of good news. we've seen some electricity turned back in over our community you can see off in the lights air. but bad news we still see some hot spots

>>in sonoma county presentation school in still can move forward with its request to reopen for in person instruction. the school is among 15 applying for a waiver from the county's department of health services. it was the only school to be approved by the way can find a list of schools that apply for waivers on our website kron 4 dot com. >>hurricane delta is getting even stronger as it barrels toward the gulf coast. this is video out of cuba where the storm brushed by today flooding, strong winds heavy rain all. >>damage some cash crops on that island nation hurricane delta. should make landfall in the u.s. sometime in the next 48 hours and could bring winds of well over a 100 miles an hour to areas already hit hard by storms over the past few months for more on the path. chief meteorologist lawrence karnow is here lawrence this is terrible news. the going to be a major hurricane looking like it is headed right toward the u.s. in fact move across the yucatan peninsula weaken somewhat get that interference inland cut off from that source of moisture that water that really fuels these st

>>but sonoma county supervisor susan gorin hopes that will change not sure whether this the glass fire will qualify and will make that its monetary threshold. >>on damages. but between the county and sonoma county we're finding that the fire has been pretty devastating and so i'm hopeful that our evacuees and certainly the folks who lost homes or have damage to their homes could qualify for that fema assistance. >>for those anxious to see the damage to their homes but the supervisor in mayor has that you wait to return until it's safe to do so when there's no longer a mandatory evacuation in your area. >>this local assistance center will be set up to saturday october 10th as for the folks that are now able to repopulate a separate services center has been set up at sequoyah elementary school at that center you can get goggles gloves in a safety suit to go through the damage in santa rosa taylor bisacky kron 4 news. >>time now to talk about our 4 zone forecast once again with our meteorologist rebecca strong. >> onathan just seen we're looking at so wind speeds said as far as the fire g

sonoma county is the only bay area county still in the purple tier. residents say the ongoing restrictions are taking a toll on an already devastated area and depressed by wildfires. abc 7 news reporter wayne friedman explains. >> reporter: sonoma county. color it purple. and that's not political. in this era of covid purple might as well be the scarlet letter. >> we're like living in a cartoon. >> reporter: with so many other counties moving to less risky tiers, sonoma county remains an exception. it is still purple. an infection rate of more than 5% and heading in the wrong direction. among people in this county it's taking a toll. >> how much sleep did you get last night? >> 30 minutes. >> reporter: kayla moore of santa rosa raising three kids on her own, keeping them at home every day for distance learning and working the graveyard shift every night. >> kids deserve to be in school. they need to be in school because it's messing with their mental health. it's not okay. my daughter's not okay. and i'm not okay. >> reporter: since sonoma's numbers s

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i will point out this both the napa county and the sonoma county sheriff today. both said that there have been no reports of any looting in either of their counties. that's in a good part being credited to people staying out of the area that they've been told to evacuate from all this information on our website kron 4 dot com you can go and see this maps for yourself live right now the newsroom. i'm justine waldman kron 4 news thank you we want to take a live look right now looking out towards the napa valley of this is a web cam video. >>so you can say that it does skip a bit but you could still see all of the smoke which is hovering over the area and the intense flames still along the ridge line. >>a red flag warning is in effect as stronger winds are expected near this area in the north bay chief meteorologist lawrence karnow has the details for us or yeah guys the winds just now picking up we're talking about this last night we thought the during the evening hours. >>that would be when we see the strongest winds are starting to see that now look at glen allen

the glass fire forcing new evacuations tonight that means about 70,000 residents in napa and sonoma counties still can't go home kron four's ella sogomonian. >>it's live in the newsroom with details on the latest evacuation orders l a kind of hand those new evacuation orders are for the now the county area take a look at this map they have been upgraded from warnings so if you are in the area between old lowly toll road and pope valley road from inquiry to a yet the springs road you must leave now all recreational areas in or near the robert louis stevenson state park including but not limited to table rock trail palisades trail hill mine trail are closed highway 29 from tubs lane to the lake county line will remain open to through traffic new evacuation warnings have been issued as well for the areas, north of i springs road extending west to robert louis stevenson trail and on highway 29 to the lake county line between highway 29 and west of butts canyon road all addresses on highway 29 from tufts lane to the lake county line let's take a look now at sonoma county where the fires are burni

>>but sonoma county supervisor susan gorin hopes that will change not sure whether this the glass fire will qualify and will make that its monetary threshold. >>on damages. but between the county and sonoma county we're finding that the fire has been pretty devastating and so i'm hopeful that our evacuees and certainly the folks who lost homes or have damage to their homes could qualify for that fema assistance. >>for those anxious to see the damage to their homes but the supervisor in mayor ask that you wait to return until it's safe to do so when there's no longer a mandatory evacuation in your area. >>this local assistance center will be set up through saturday october 10th as for the folks that are now able to repopulate a separate services center has been set up at sequoyah elementary school at that center you can get goggles gloves and a safety suit to go to the damage in santa rosa taylor bisacky kron 4 news. >>still ahead here on the kron 4 morning news, new questions about if the president was already positive for coronavirus in tuesday's presidential debate and if the safety

flames have destroyed about 600 buildings, that includes 220 homes in both napa and sonoma counties.00 others have been damaged and nearly 20,000 -- i beg your pardon, nearly 29,000 buildings continue to be threatened by this fire. the sonoma county board of supervisors met in a special session today and unanimously ratified two emergency declarations. one of them authorizes emergency contracts for repairs and removal of dangerous conditions. the other establishes a $2.5 million glass fire disaster fund. >> that $2.5 million economic uncertainty fund is the remainder of government dollars that were assigned out of the settlement with pg&e, so those are pg&e fire dollars -- whatever the right word is, will address this particular fire going forward. >> it is unclear how the glass fire started, and pg&e says it has no reason to believe that its equipment is responsible. w head into the weekend, we still have the red flag fire warning until 6:00 a.m. saturday. nothing extreme, but still could be on the order of 20-25 miles per hour, maybe 30 miles prior for the hills of the north bay. s

>>east of napa in the hills of sonoma county and solano county there's a lot of danger because of the dry fuels and these wind bursts that we're going to be seeing live this afternoon and into the night you can see on the map all of the red areas that are those are the areas where we're going to see wind gusts that could be up to 40 miles per hour. and where this red flag warning is in effect again former in solano napa and sonoma counties, stronger winds are expected later into the night in those mountain peaks and higher elevation areas in the concern. >>it's a wild fire could spread rapidly in those winds. until we see rain we're not going to see this wildfire danger go away. this is usually peak wildfire season. yet we have already seen many wildfires spark since august and now we're continuing to see dangerous conditions now caught up with santa rosa's assistant fire marshal about the potential for another fire to spark. >>and so a lot of those areas have reestablished there's brush their seasonal grasses there's definitely the threat for a fire moving back to those areas again.

napa and sonoma county have burned down so far. many, many more are threatened. cal fire says 28,000 homes are at risk. fire officials are giving an update on the glass fire right now from santa rosa. let's listen in live. >> one of the positive things is it has opened up a greater window for us to fly and fly aircraft. it gives us a great opportunity to slow the fire's advance and take care of that issue. in the sonoma county area unfortunately the weather conditions and the visibility is such that we cannot fly any aircraft safely. funer fortunately we haven't had much of a need. it's in the air that we don't have -- but where we do have the greatest need we are flying aircraft in the small windows of opportunity the best we can. >> we've been listening to a live news briefing on the glass fire. the little bit of information we were able to glean there is with the vital air support, the aircraft in the air. it's a mixed bag today it. >> sounds like they've got progress in napa county where they are able to put aircraft in the air to drop retardant however the c

. >> the glass fire continues to grow in napa and sonoma counties. it's up to nearly 52,000 acres tonight. cal fire says containment remains at 2%. there are more evacuation orders and flames are now threatening more than 26,000 structures. we know more than 100 homes have been lost in the fire and dozens more damaged. so far, though, no one has been hurt. here's a look at where the fire is burning. firefighters are preparing for more dry and breezy conditions. a red flag warning goes into effect tomorrow afternoon. >>> firefighters are hoping the progress they've made pays off as those red flag conditions bear down, and they try to protect the town of calistoga. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony has the story. >> reporter: it seems counterintuitive, to set fires when they're trying to stop one. but that's exactly what firefighters are doing high atop diamond mountain road just a few miles from downtown calistoga. the goal, to gain the upper hand on the glass fire. while the winds are down. >> so that's why we're really trying to button up the lower

it shows the burn scar out of sonoma county. you can see firefighters were actually able to save all of these homes. about two hours ago evacuation orders were reduced to warnings south and north of oakmont with the exception east of fairfield drive. the fire has destroyed 64,000 acres in napa and sonoma counties. but there is good news coming from the fire lines. crews have nearly doubled containment from yesterday to 17%. we have team coverage on the glass fire. we begin with kpix 5's john ramos. >> evacuations continue in napa county, and now the clearer air may actually cause problems for firefighters. this morning napa valley got some of its beauty back. the air cleared and fires on the west side were mere wisps of smoke compared to a week ago. today's fire fight was in the rugged area east where an evacuation warnings became an order. the heavy smoke layer was gone and a steady stream of military style aerial attack helicopters took advantage of it to make drops on the fire line. but napa county fire chief says the smoke a

station is volunteer and donation based and yet it's responsible for giving critical information to sonoma county'sino community, which accounts for 54% of the county's covid cases. edgar is kbbs volunteer director of programming. he says the broadcasters have spent a lot of time battling misinformation during the pandemic. >> as soon as the government says something, we -- we struggle to get on the air to say to people, yes, this is actually true. even though, you have no reason to trust these people, sometimes. >> if they're undocumented people, you know, there is a trust issue there. they're not necessarily going to turn to government. >> reporter: sonoma county supervisor, david rabbit, says they are lagging behind the rest of the bay area for a number of reasons. >> the gatherings. the fires with the congregate shelters. labor day. the tourist economy that we have. >> rabbit says sonoma county created a new equity department over the summer and says, this friday, supervisors will be holding a special meeting to strategize about how to reduce covid in their latino community. >> avila has ideas

he's meeting with napa and sonoma county residents. people are exhausted concerned, and anxious about their future. not just their safety. clearly we have the work cut out to deal with not only suppression, but prevention strategies, dealing with the immediate as well as strategies to address the long term. >> earlier this week, the governor signed legislation to bolster the state's wildfire preparedness and protect high risk communities. >>> the trees aren't moving much in the eastbound, a little window, i know people living in the north bay are more concerned about them. >> yeah, you know, it is starting to pick up slightly that i've seen this wind, it's going to kick in as we get past 1:00 today. that's when the red flag warning is going into effect. it's for the glass fire area, the east bay hills and mountains and the santa cruz mountains now, and it's extended until saturday. it kicks off at 1pm today and that's when we're expecting the 20 to 30 miles per hour gusts and also of course, we have lower humidity levels and that compl

part of a sonoma county that got us 6 100th of an inch so that was the most you can see other parts of the north bay got a little bit of the rain showers as well. but to now we're going to be completely dry futurecast for showing tomorrow. it's going to be mostly clear conditions and a high pressure. it's going to be building around the bay area starting tomorrow that's what's going to be bringing us said the warmer temperatures right now though pretty their 50's and 60's if you like those 65 for hayward oakland you're at 6461 in berkeley 68 in tehran and currently 61 in novato but those 80's will return inland all have a breakdown of those coming up a little bit later back to you >>thanks still to come tonight here on kron 4 news at 10 o'clock the president now crediting with general with helping him quickly recovered from covid-19 tonight, the experts now weighing in on just how effective the drug really is a new warning tonight from officials in sonoma county would folks living there need to do in order to protect themselves from the upcoming way. just 10 days ago it was a ghost

the glass fire has been burning in napa and sonoma county for eight days. in sonoma county evacuation warnings were rescinded today and some areas of the county as firefighters make progress battling the fire. the flames have burned more than 67,000 acres and tonight the fire is 54% contained. >>> a couple from sonoma county lost their home in the fire and also their livelihood. it was their family business built over a number of years selling everything from art to christmas trees. we are in sonoma county where the community is stepping up to help. >> reporter: the couple is understandably heartbroken. the yellow caution tape is still up on the property. and they tell me they are waiting for fire officials to give the okay so cleanup can begin. so hopefully they can rebuild. >> the shock is overwhelming. it is so huge. >> reporter: he and his wife grapple with what is left of their property along highway 12 just outside of santa rosa in the aftermath of the glass fire. >> it was more than a home. it was a life. >> reporter: they lived and worked here for m

around 400,000 customers in california, the majority of the customers impacted rn napa county, sonoma county and marin county and with thousands of customers in san mateo and santa clara counties that could also be affected. pg&e will open over 100 community resource centers to support those without power and there will be handwashing stations, people can charge medical equipment and other devices and they are also providing snacks. these are the areas to be impacted starting this evening. it includes every bay area county except for san francisco. now let's get the latest on the weather.>> this afternoon is when we get the wind, right around sunset tonight is when the majority of us expect to see them pick up and it will be windy overnight. but first let me get you out the door sunday morning. temperature sitting right around 60 and a quick look ahead shows we will see numbers in the mid-70s today and plenty of morning clouds. it should look gray at times to start the day with daytime highs into the mid-70s for most. let's get into the overviews of what to expect on today's wind. we still h

federal emergency so agencies like fema won't be providing assistance or money at this point but sonoma county supervisor susan gorin is hoping that will change. >>not sure whether this the glass fire will qualify and will make that its monetary threshold on damages. but between now and the county and sonoma county we're finding that the fire has been pretty devastating and so i'm hopeful that our evacuees and certainly the folks who lost homes or have damage to their homes could qualify for that fema assistance. >>for families anxious to get in and see what's left of their homes county officials are urging you you have to wait until there is no longer a mandatory evacuation. in your neighborhood. if it's you know you see all of the fires out there you can still not go back in that means that they still consider your neighborhood could be at risk for hot spots or flare ups or for a new fire depending on the wind. >>time now is 5.21 coming up here on the kron 00:04am morning news doctors are using experimental drug to treat the president will tell you how it's going for how it's undergoing clin

>>the devastation is still being tallied tonight in napa and sonoma counties which had a lot of arease still under evacuation orders this evening because of the glass fire still burning our kron four's maureen kelly talked to a county supervisor who is also an evacuee about resources coming online soon to help out. >>the burned out residents. >>parts of the valley of the moon look more like the valley of the moon escape with so much charred wooden ash covered debris where homes used to be like this one on meadow wood drive in the oakland community. my county said get out now the chair of the sonoma county board of supervisors, susan gorin is one of the residents evacuated from her home here for the second time in 3 years she still rebuilding the home she lost which escaped the fire this time around as is the rental home. she is currently living and i didn't want to be in the position again of losing everything so i did stuff every nook and cranny of my car a distribution center is expected to open possibly as soon as saturday. >>as sequoyah elementary school for those burned out to pi

hundreds of structures have been destroyed that includes homes and wineries in napa and sonoma county kron four's phillipe djegal spent the day and one napa county winery that has so far avoided the worst of the fire. >>work at the bremer family winery in deer park. it has not stopped despite the glass fire burning in the napa county community. we are sick stay south and it's not easy. the fire did reach the winery on deerpark road but longtime winemaker bob bolen says the vineyards and buildings were spared, but people lost their homes. >>i feel very very fortunate. i'm dealing with at the moment, it is cold showers because we don't have natural like that course and happy to do that. it's a long road back for a lot bowling says the bremer family did lose a home up the mountain but their business is still intact. >>now his crews picking and processing grapes for fermentation moving the smoke has not ruin the product. i've been fortunate that i have person experiences. >>2017 or even years we're all fine. what i hear is sometimes you smell it. right off the bat second day from station

>>well happening today, anyone living in sonoma county who was impacted by the glass fire will actually get help from the county. a local assisted centers opening up at 1 o'clock this afternoon at maria creo high school that's in santa rosa and offers services to get people back on track get them on their feet and start the rebuilding process. now as of now the fire is not considered a federal emergencies so agencies like fema won't be providing assistance money but sonoma county supervisor susan gorin core and hopes that that will change. >>not sure whether this the glass fire will qualify and will make that its monetary threshold on damages. but between the county and sonoma county we're finding that the fire has been pretty devastating and so i'm hopeful that our evacuees and certainly the folks who lost homes or have damage to their homes could qualify for that fema assistance. >>or for all those families who are ages to see their neighborhoods and the damage to their homes county officials are actually asking folks to just hold off just wait until there is no longer a mandatory eva