wayne freedman looks at what as stake. >> reporter: we've reached the point where we no longer take a school's name for granted. in santa rosa, james monroeelem nation's fifth president, and luther burbank elementary are now on the target list. >> it's our responsibility as leaders in our society now to own and be responsible for our histories. >> reporter: aleg rhea de la cruz a trustee for the santa rosa city schools is one voice

tonight wayne freedman talks to a woman who achieved closure by opening up a building. >> it is quite a view for the woman who once lived. inside. >> the furniture, the rugs and lamps this and that is all in tuned there. >> it's been 18 months since this sausalito hillside ripped loose, tore out a house and left this one as a virtual island with no way to get that furniture in or out until this morning. it was because her landlords built a scaffold allowing landlords to come and go from what had become a pre-covid-19 time capsule. this video shot by karen shows the furniture pretty much undamaged, but outside it's still a mess with beams exposed by broken bones and splintery testimony to the mudslide's might. >> i've had to re-create my whole self. >> she's the neighbor who rode the house next door a floor sun tumbling over me and beams. >> reporter: yet 18 months later still no resolution as to who was to plamblame? it was the city of sausalito? was it cal trans? the national park service? >> no one is taking responsibility? >> who is paying your bills to get this done? >> we're payi

from napa county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> with the wildfires affecting our local air quality so significantly many who work outside are really having a tough time. that includes postal carriers. chris nguyen is in south bay with more on the efforts under way now to protect them. >> reporter: you have likely heard the unofficial motto of the united states postal service, neither rain, nor snowe nor sleet nor hale shall keep the postmen from their local rounds. smoke can be added to the list as wildfires continue to burn. but there are concerns as mail carriers work up to 12 hours outside in a day. >> within an hour we can see an increase in ambulance calls for respiratory and cardiac problems. >> reporter: most mail trucks have a window that remains open for carriers to have easy access to mailboxes. the wife of a south bay postal worker wrote us to saying there are no indoor restaurants open where they can go to get releaf during a leverage period. our government is trying to protect fire firefighters but nobody is looking out for our postal workers. abc spoke to usps officials

wayne freedman is on the story. >> reporter: it is home sweet home or -- the concrete is cracking, the pipes leaking, the weeds winning, the playgrounds losing. >> all hallway, bathroom. > marin has direct links to frank lloyd wright who might be shaking his head if he saw conditions now or spoke with this woman. >> i moved from one apartment that had mold into this apartment that has roaches. >> fellow residents blame the marin housing authority. they have filed suit now. >> there's the heating, the plumbing, the electrical. >> residents say the damage has been getting worse for years and accumulating willfully on the part of the county. that is why they're suing for $200 million. the county wants to put up a new building. residents say if that happens, they may never get back. >> conceptually, we're looking at building new units so that we can get into existing units and do renovation. i can't stop people from saying i want to move. but no involuntary displacement. >> marin has a executive director. louis jordan says they don't have bet r funds. they have been working with the commun

in santa rosa, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> more to bring you here. scary moments for a new mom. her baby choking, then not breathing. the rush to call 911, and the hero chp who saved her young life. >>> and stress over paying the rent. both tenants and landlords come together in what feels for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub? rewarded! get a free delivery perk when you order. - [group] grubhub. >> announcer: building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future. this is abc7 news. >>> diverse and sometimes conflicting views on the bay area rental market during the current pandemic came together for a productive conversation late yesterday. 7 on your side's michael finney moderated that discussion and joins us with this recap. michael. >> hey. we had a bay area couple start off our conversation, talking about what it was like to be out of work for more than four months and then not being able to find a sympathetic ear from their landlord. >> and honestly it was very difficult. it wasn't really going anywhere for almost four m

." >>> i'm wayne freedman in sonoma county. good news for barbershops and salons. they're open again. but not every business can say that. >> we want our businesses to open. we want our businesses to thrive. and the fact is, our businesses are struggling. >> businesses around the bay area struggling indeed. but good news for some, as malls and salons slowly start to reopen. good afternoon. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. a quick look at the latest coronavirus cases. the u.s. has officially surpassed the 6 million mark. california reported nearly 4200 cases today and the first state with 700,000. as for the bay area, the total number as of today, including santa cruz county, is nearly 87,000. >>> a new color coding system went into effect today. we talked about that last week. it's now in effect, giving businesses the go ahead, many of them, to reopen. counties are now color coded. you can see the key on the left. yellow is about as good as it gets at this point, meaning coronavirus spread is minimal. orange is moderate. red is subs

live to abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman in healdsburg near where the walbridge fire is burning. wayne? >> reporter: good evening, dan. you might call this a day of small victories fighting a very big fire. firefighters had a chance to catch up with it. in the hills this is what passed for firefighting most of the day, hosing down still smolders trees, cutting stumps, and trying to stay ahead of a walbridge fire that has been hard to catch and more difficult to contain for a week. when you hear about a fire line this is a classic small scale example. this cleared here, this area here burned, that over there is where they don't want the fire to go. >> firefighters are working above the russian river communities. it's deep and accessible and hasn't burned since the 1900s so working out where to establish the containment lines can be tricky. >> reporter: winemakers may need to call on a few tricks in dealing with the 2020 vintage. this has been one of the earliest harvests on record but they still cannot predict the effect of smoke so thick that at times we could not see from one sid

wayne freedman has a destructio. wayne? >> before we look at some of the destruction, let's take a look at this ominous sky over the dry creek valley. you have a little bit of everything. you have blue sky, heavy smoke, you've got the sun trying to peek through and you have the clouds continuing to move to the southeast. inside the burn zone, it is not pretty. we just returned from there a few hours ago. we're driving carefully up mill creek road in sonoma county through a burn state that this morning seemed benign when compared with what must have been the hell that roared through here last night. >> it breaks my heart. this is my backyard. this is the fire that we've been worrying about for decades around here. >> reporter: that's the healdsburg fire chief describing the wadgfire. this afternoon he toured the browned out burn zone with supervisor james gore who usually has answers for . >> does anyone have any answers for how many houses burned here? >> no. there are people throwing around estimates, 15 to 20 but nobody k

wayne freedman is live with that part of our coverage tonight. wayne? >> good evening, we have better news tonight. over my shoulder, you see a roadblock, you see the smoke from the fire that has for the most part stayed down today, we've had much less spread of this fire, partly due to more resources, cal fire added 500 people in the last 24 hours, that seems to be making a difference. >> i'm going to stay here until i see flames coming down the road. >> that is one should be evacuee's opinion what he will do if and when the smoke behind the mountains turns the civiliz. on paper, this region is a ghost town. in reality -- >> no, there's hundreds of people here actually. >> you would be surprised. >> watching the mountains, hoping winds stay down. and the wallbridge fire follows suit. in days past, it's wreaked havoc. last night, drew an all out assault from cal fire. natural disasters come with the turf around here. >> flood, fire, flood, it keeps going. >> the die hards keep staying. this was rionitu. >> there's been sheriffs and highway patrol, and h

wayne freedman is on the ground live for us tonight. what can you tell us? >> reporter: dan, first thing i tell you, it has been a surprise. you talk about that number of acres, 2500 acres now. two hours ago, we were saying 200 acres, because it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. we spent a lot of time earlier today. we're on highway 128, which is closed all the way to higha 121. let's show you some video from earlier today. one witness said he counted 20 lightning strikes. he said the big one sounded like an explosion and saw flames immediately. it's in steep terrain. it got off to that fast start. by 10:00 a.m., just four hours in, chp had begun evacuating residents. cal fire's report at 2500 acres, threatening 200 structures. we saw one of those structures earlier today in a canyon off of a speech ro-- speech roateep ro. so it's a tough fight in there. a fight evolving situation. as far as the evacuees are concerned, they're getting out of here. they're going to the cross walk community church in napa. they are getting information there. so this

as wayne freedman explains, it may come down to a mixup. >> reporter: for carol mckale, it's been a longe consumed her home, along with so many others. the rebuild took almost three years. >> we love it. but i'm still waiting for them to see jail time. >> reporter: contractors pam and sam face 59 felony counts. attorney richard freeman represents some of them. >> there's fraud, there's unlawful business practices, there's elder abuse, obtaining money by false pretenses. >> they said they're family people. they are people like us and they were going to make it right for us. and everything checked out, but so did they. they checked out. >> reporter: they came to sonoma county promising to rebuild better for less money by using central valley labor and materials. but the work never got done. $3 million to $4 million in redoes its remain missing. >> we're not some fly by night company and we didn't go up there as ambulance chasers to go up there and, you know, take these people. >> reporter: that is the story they will likely want to tell in court. they are free right now on $500,000 bail. a

we sent nbc news reporter wayne freedman, and it was in more ways than one? >> in marin county there is a crooked yellow line something that separates the haves from the have notes. in another circumstance, i camp here overnight. >> the man known as gordo has been camping here for at least 18 months. >> how did you find this place? >> nobody came around it. >> now they do. binford road between highway 101 and a wild life sanctuary, gordo has all kinds of company. >> we had to go some place. >> i have nowhere to go. i just have nowhere to go. >> locals say the first of these rvs began to appear a couple of years ago, first one, then two, ronavirus, did not help. >> that corona hit and nobody wants anyone inside their homes. >> he's wan electrical contractor. he calls this camping and he has nothing, but affection for the marin county sheriff's department and today they told us there is no restriction keeping people from parking here. >> legally, you can't camp out here on the side of the road and that's what i've done and they've come by and asked me if there

for -- go to napa, the crosswalk community church, first street in napa, live in napa county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> here is another live look at the fire in san mateo county, near the town of la honda, you can see what an issue it is. the weather is a factor or here and in napa as well. of course, let's go to abc7 news meteorologist to see what is happening on the fire line. >> yeah, dan, it is not good near la honda, it's so hot, 90 degrees right now. firefighters will have to battle the low relative humidity. it's 26%. fortunately the winds are not a big issue near this fire right now. gusts to 3 miles an hour. winds are going to be a problem near the north bay, near the fires the winds have increased, right now, 101 degrees. 24% relative humidity and north wind to 22 miles an hour. that's the gusts. that's near the hennessey fire, and near the gamble fire, so hot, and the winds have increased, gusting to 10 miles an hour. the firefighters will have to battle the wind in the surrounding area, you can see the breezes are going to pick up right now. anywhere from 15-30 miles an hour

. >> reporter: in the north bay, wayne freedman, abc news 7. >>> owners of small businesses in the bay area say they are facing failure unless they get help from the government quickly. talks between the administration and democratic leadership in washington for a new round of stimulus grants collapsed and no plans for future meetings o talks about this. and this comes as a cloud continues to hang over the ppe loan program designed to save small businesses suffering in this pandemic. >> reporter: the owner of this franchise in san jose pays $10,000 in rent and overhead per month. survival will depend on a second round of ppe loans. >> our people will not be able to survive. we really need this kind of a life line. >> reporter: 44% of small business owners say they expect to fail in the next six months. 35% have tapped their retirement account to stay open. 16% have considered filing for bankruptcy. the survey was done by the group small business majority. small business advocates complain they can't measure the success of a $310 billion program because the small business administration

live near healdsburg wayne freedman abc 7 news. >> great to hear encouraging news tonight. thank you. >>> now to the ccu lightning complex burning in the santa cruz mountains. a nearly 80,000 acres have burned there. 443 structures are gone. one person has been killed. approximately 77,000 people have been evacuated, mostly in the communities from scotts valley to boulder creek. abc 7 news reporter chris reyes is live in san jose with the latest on the fire fight there. >> good evening. they're getting good weather for sure, better than in days. that is the silver lining to all of this considering how dangerous the working conditions continue to be. woo he were deep into the burn zone this afternoon. here is what we saw. >> when you're fighting a fire in the santa cruz mountains this is what it looks like. one firefighter scaling a steep terrain, pulling hoses thousands of feet long all to fight one hot spot. that is the kind of work happening all along empire grade between bonnie dune and felton some of the hardest hit areas of the czu lightning complex fire. this scene to

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in hieldsburg, wayne freedman. abc7 news. >> the fire is the primary focus. the chief of santa rosa fire said they are struggling with lack of resources. >> there's no more equipment out there. we have been on the line since it started and they are still out there, it's a very difficult situation. when you don't have crews that you can rotate in. >>. it has destroyed the most homes in the three complex fires, 105 have been destroyed. many still threatened. several evacuation orders are in affect. fires are encroaching on two communication towers. make sure you have multiple ways to get information about evacuations and stay a stand to armstrong woods. >> we don't have the people to keep that fire out of the woods. it is not a flaming front that you would see from a more devastating fire. >> cal fire officials say a res. >> in total, more thanacres hav fire zones in the bay area. that gives you a per team was assessing the fire damage. and we were along that street. you can see the devastation there. he is in addition to a pg&e worker whoelping first responder

." >>> i'm wayne freedman in sonoma county. good news for barbershops and salons.y're open again. but not every business can say that. >> we want our businesses to open. we want our businesses to thrive. and the fact is, our businesses are struggling. >> businesses around the bay area struggling indeed. but good news for some, as malls and salons slowly start to reopen. good afternoon. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. a quick look at the latest coronavirus cases. the u.s. has officially surpassed the 6 million mark. california reported nearly 4200 cases today and the first state with 700,000. as for the bay area, the total number as of today, including santa cruz county, is nearly 87,000. >>> a new color coding system went into effect today. we talked about that last week. it's now in effect, giving businesses the go ahead, many of them, to reopen. counties are now color coded. you can see the key on t

wayne freedman is on the ground live for us tonight. what can you tell us?reporter: dan, first thing i tell you, it has been a surprise. you talk about that number of acres, 2500 acres now. two hours ago, we were saying 200 acres, because it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. we spent a lot of time earlier today. we're on highway 128, which is closed all the way to higha 121. let's show you some video from earlier today. one witness said he counted 20 lightning strikes. he said the big one sounded like an explosion and saw flames immediately. it's in steep terrain. it got off to that fast start. by 10:00 a.m., just four hours in, chp had begun evacuating residents. cal fire's report at 2500 acres, threatening 200 structures. we saw one of those structures earlier today in a

wayne freedman will join us shortly from the scene to tell us more about what's happening now.happening at highway 128 at silverado trail, and the roadblocks are in place there. the chp has set that up, so only if you'rennn n uetzone. there. us live. right wayne? >> reporter: good afternoon. communications here are tough right now. we've been in the

in hieldsburg, wayne freedman. abc7 news. >> the fire is the primary focus. the chief of santa rosa fire said they are struggling with lack of resources. >> there's no more equipment out there. we have been on the line since it started and they are still out there, it's a very difficult situation. when you don't have crews that you can rotate in. >>. it has destroyed the most homes in the three complex fires, 105 have been destroyed. many still threatened. several evacuation orders are in affect. fires are encroaching on two communication towers. make sure you have multiple ways to get information about evacuations and crews may not be able to stay a stand to save armstrong woods. >> we don't have the people to keep that fire out of the woods. it is not a flaming front that you would see from a more devastating fire. >> cal fire officials say a hurricane brewing to the south could bring lightning that could pose the risk of more fires. >> in total, more than 420,000 acres have burned in three main fire zones in the bay area. that gives you a per team was asse

. >> reporter: i'm wayne freedman in sonoma counseledy where the walbridge fire laid down a bit todaying firefighters a chance to make some headway. that's coming up. >>> i'm spencer christian. air quality remains quite poor. i'll have details on abc 7 news at 6:00 starts now. >>> we're making good progress. make no mistake, we have a long way to go. >>> good progress and a long way to go. firefighters face an extraordinary battle against wildfires that are setting state records and still berurning. >> thank you for joining us. wildfires are all around us as you can see on this map very clearly. lightning sparked the fires last week, so many of them they are grouped into complexes. the largest in the south bay and the east bay, the scu complex has burned more than 365,000 n. the second largest is in the north bay and that's the lnu lightning complex, the same size, with 33% containment at last report. along the coast the czu lightning complex has burned more than 80,000 acres of santa cruz and san mateo counties and is 19% contained. we expect a live update any moment now. >>> let's b

now let's to wayne freedman live in healdsburg. what's the latest there? >> reporter: good afternoon. we're right on the bordernd the creek valley. we're ie of the fire behind us over there. a short time ago, we went into those mountains where the fire was burning. it is not a pretty picture. we're driving carefully up middle creek road in sonoma county through a burn state that this morning seemed benign when compared with what must have been t hell that roared through here last night. >> it breaks my heart. this is our backyard, my backyard. this is the fire we've been worrying about for decades around here. >> reporter: he skriks the walbridge fire. this afternoon he toured the browned out zone with the supervisor who usually has answers for everything. >> does anyone know how many houses burned here last night? >> no. people are throwing around estimates, 15 to 20 or so but nobody knows right now. there are no confirmed numbers. >> reporter: but everyone knew to worry, not far away in healdsburg proper, residents watched the smoke and the flames above

. >> reporter: let's go right to wayne freedman who was at the wallidge fire today. wayne? >> it's been quieter today, a lot more smoky today and roadblocks continue. this is the entrance and there you see the cars trying to get in. many of them are. some of them are not. on the surface you might say this was too quiet a day but there weren't a lot of big flames, not a lot of advancement of the fires but up on the hills you see the work that's being done, weather helped as firefighters have gained ground. in the hills around healdsburg dry creek valley, this is what passed as firefighting most of today, hosing down smoldering trees, cutting and trying to stay the head of a wall bridge fire that's been hard to catch and difficult to contain for more than a week. >> when you hear about a fire line, this is a classic example. this cleared. this over here burned. over there, that's where they don't want the fire to go. >> a lot of fires rushing in the communities are deep in the wooded forest area. it's deep and accessible in an area that hasn't burned since the 1900s. still, f

wayne freedman spoke with both sides today. >> reporter: the concrete cracking, the weeds win go, the may grounds losing. marin city's golden gate village has direct links to frank lloyd wright who might be shaking his head if he saw conditions now or spoke with michelle. >> i moved from one apartment that had mold into this apartmenthahas aches. >> reporter: now they have filed suit. >> there is the heating and the plumbing. there is the electrical. >> residents today damage has been getting worse for years and accumulating on the part of the county. that's why they're suing. for $200 million. the county wants to put up a new building. residents say if that happens, they may never get it back. >> so conceptually we're looking at building new units, so that we can get into existing units and do renovation. i can't stop people from saying i want to move. but no one volunteers displacement. >> louis jordan said today, the county does not have enough funds for better majintenance. >> deliberately wanting to run down the property to justify demolition, and to rebuild a mixed income commun

wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> all right. thank you. evacuation orders remain in place for the dearborn fire on the east side of contra costa county of it is one. several fires sparked by the lightning. people have been told to leave. the fires burned more than 1400 acres and there is no containment. >> now abc7 with spencer christian, tracking conditions for firefighters and the continued threats of extreme weather. >> you're right. there is not muchnche eisgie.rau so let's look at the fire conditions. first we'll take you to the location of the fire in san mateo county. the computer is a little bit slow here. 90 degrees. very, very low relative humidity. only 22%. the wind is, you can see that there is a reporting error here. a technical error. let's go to the north bay fires and once again we have to hope the computer is functioning properly and it is. 101 degrees in the area of the gamble fire. only 21% relative humidity. wind out of the southwest at 7 miles an hour with goufts 15 miles an hour. wayne made an accurate observation. t

. >>> i'm wayne freedman. do you see that hotel behind me? the county is considering buying and it turning it into a homeless shelter. we have a weekend warm-up for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub? rewarded! get a free delivery perk when you order. - [group] grubhub. for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto helped people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. >>> the latest numbers show sonoma county has almost 3,000 homeless people. timing shelter for them has proven difficult. but now there is a solution, putting them up in. >> reporter: in the quiet town, the news caught everyone by surprise. even kelly who runs a coffee

as they told abc7 news report he wayne freedman, their troubles are not over. >> reporter: first times are always memorable and maybe more so when they're the first after a long imposed wait. >> i miss being able to be pampered a bit. >> reporter: even more for this salon. county regulations got in the way of what had been an american dream, now reduced to two outside tables. >> this is my family-owned business. >> reporter: it finally opened in marin county today along with many others like the evo spa. >> on a business level, it is very stressful. >> gail ann owns the business. she couldn't open the 12 rooms inside. she did have three tables outside for facials and massage. yes, massage, outdoors with some accommodations. business owners sayingormervicee is a start. they said they have a long way to go toward profitability. >> in the beginning, in march, okay, two or three months. we can make it. no problem. >> but she's only been able to hire back 10 of 40 employees. >> the bottom line is you have to be willing to live in the under known. nobody knows what will happen. >> worries co

wayne freedman. abc7 news. >>> now tom breaking news in san mateo county. near la honda and sam mcdonald park are closed because of the flames. an evacuation warning has been issued, meaning people may have to flee their homes at any moment. luz pena is live on the scene there. luz in. >> reporter: yeah. we've spoken to several residents who are now packing up and gearing up to evacuate. you can see the flames raging right behind us. the white smoke expanding through the ridge. you can see flames raging as they approach a community of 200 to 300 people. we're flying over the fire. you can see the flames and pagd throughout the area. cal fire confirmed, this fire is directly imtwo major communities. loma mar. it is presumed it started sunday morning. firefighters responded to 22 fires throughout this region. many residents have been documenting the size of the blaze since sunday. here's one of the residents, thomas marks. >> judging by that, at least twice from last night, a little more than that. and that is substantially larger. >> reporter: 60 homes, thei

wayne freedman will join us shortly from the scene to tell us more about what's happening now. it's happening at highway 128 at silverado trail, and the roadblocks are in place there. the chp has set that up, so only if you'rennn n uetzone. there. us live. right wayne? >> reporter: good afternoon. communications here are tough right now. we've been in the valley all afternoon, there's little cell coverage. we are on highway 128. the fire is behind us, about 20 minutes behind us. we had to come out just to file this report for you. this has been an unusual report. let's begin with more video from sky 7. it's not off that firefighters know how and when a blaze starts, but there's not much doubt about this one. about 6:30 this morning, 20 different lightning strikes. one person told me the big one shook the ground. he said it sounded like an explosion and saw flames almost immediately. it's burning in steep terrain. by 10:00 a.m., they begun evacuating residents. cal fire reports by 2:30, 70 acres had been burned. now over a thousand acres have been burned. the lucky part right no

in santa rosa, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> when it comes to issues of racial and social justice, abc7 news is here to help. go to abc7news.com/takeaction to find your ally or to learn how to become one. >>> all right. we need to get one last check on our weather before we launch on into the weekend, dan. >> it has arrived, ama, and we're ready. sandhya patel has the forecast. >> yeah. and the forecast looks fabulous for any of your outdoor plans this upcoming weekend. ama and dan, let's take a look at the doppler. fog is regrouping along the coast line as we head towards tomorrow morning, you will find it around parts of the bay and the coast. tomorrow afternoon half moon bay 64 degrees. it's going to be a nice mild day. downtown san francisco, 68. if you live in oakland, it's going to be comfortable, 75 degrees. a little warmer than today. 91 in walnut creek. head to the inland valleys, 95 degrees in antioch. so summer will live up to its name. as we take a look at the highs for saturday, the rest of the highs, 85 in vallejo, 90 degrees in santa rosa. it's going to be pleasant weathe

as abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman explains, spanish flat villa is a name you won't forget buns you see the length and breadth of damage. >> in the courtyard of a napa hotel, a reunion under tragic circumstances. >> we have each other here. that's all we have. >> along with memories of what used to be a quiet modest life in the spanish flat mobile villa near lake berryessa. heated, twisted wreckage remains. for michelle, space 21 represents 40 years of her life. >> never thought it would happen. thought we'd be able to go back home. know that they would save it. but not this time. >> residents had received warnings, two days of them. it seemed that the blaze was still a long way off. when it finally roared through, they had half an hour to get away. >> everything is gone. >> here's how is looked after the frantic few minutes after the hennessey fire advancedment. assistant manager dan davenport went door to door. he would be the last map out. >> i looked at the bridges at the north end of the lake and saw this mushroom cloud, i knew everything was gone. >> literally, figuratively. i

here's abc7 news reporteder wayne freedman. >> reporter: outside the restaurant in petaluma, the signs about wearing masks have not changed in weeks. but after today there are some teeth behind them. >> we've been pretty strict about wearing the masks. >> reporter: and now so is sonoma county which has joined other bay area counties imposing fines ranging from $100 to $10,000 for those caught wearing masks. supervisor james gore. >> this is not to go out and slap everybody with a fine and get out i ticket book. this is a deal for people who are straight-up jerks. >> reporter: they ask a question, how sharp are the teeth in those new county ordinances? surprises, we checked across the bay area, berkeley, san francisco, oakland reported back that they had not issued a single mask citation. nor have county sheriffs in alameda, napa or contra costa. >> they are not enforcing customers to wear masks. >> reporter: as for marin county, the job of enforcing masks in restaurants landed on the desk of deputy environment health director rebecca ing. she has received 200 complaints. >>> how many h